On 6 Apr 2006, at 13:50, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:18:35PM +0200, Magnus Eriksson wrote: >> 4: Do nothing. So what if it occasionally takes a long time to >> start? >> How much randomness is needed anyway? Is this a real problem, or >> is Freenet only ever going to be slow if you're actively draining >> /dev/random? > > People have reported it taking ages to start up - 5 minutes plus - and > Ian regards this as a problem.
This is undoubtedly a serious usability issue, people start Freenet, but FProxy doesn't show up for ages, leading them to the not- unreasonable conclusion that Freenet isn't working. The first time I saw this myself that is the conclusion I came to. I'm not aware of any software that takes 5 minutes to start up, and there should be no reason that Freenet needs to. This a critical usability flaw and must be rectified one way or another. Ian.
