* Malkus Lindroos <malkus at iki.fi> [2007-08-21 17:56:03]: > Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > Using the median insteed of the mean solves that problem... Moreover > > really high ping times are not possible because there is a timeout. > > It just doesn't seem to work like that in practice? The 0.7 node I have > is only doing a fraction of the work it used to in 0.5 measured by > transfer rates, cpu usage, disk usage
Consuming resources isn't a proof of efficiency. > which also seems to reflect > directly to the speed of the network experienced by the user. Any precise metric ? > > >> Because of this, there should at least be an option to disable the use > >> of maxpingtimes in the config for now and see if the network would > >> become faster. > >> > > > > Again, it's not a problem unless most of your peers are missbehaving... > > And as you choose them it's up to you. > > Well, call it misbehaving if you like, but the problem seems to be that > my peers have their ADSL lines congested and they have high ping times > because of that. Mines don't > But I don't see why this should limit my node - Because transferring to them data they can't handle is useless ? > especially because there are _some_ peers that are not heavily loaded, > which my node could be using for routing while other are overloaded. What you're suggesting here is called missrouting. > I have tried with some success cutting of nodes with too high average > ping times - i.e. nodes for which their owner has set a too high bw > limit or which are too loaded. Well, you're supposed to connect to your friends ... Educate them so that their line isn't overloaded anymore and your ping times are lower. > Unfortunately that doesn't work for > opennet - and it doesn't seem good for the routing purposes of darknet > either. > My friends just don't understand about DSL line speeds etc. I won't comment regarding opennet. NextGen$ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20070821/379941da/attachment.pgp>
