> Do we even have 100 nodes on the network?
Now I'm _really_ getting worried.
As I was tossing and turning in bed earlier tonight, contemplating this
problem, I thought that the issue might be the opposite - thousands of
nodes.
I realise I'm still painfully ignorant of Freenet's topology
But I wondered if Freenet is getting so vast that a HTL=100 insert is just a
mere drop in the ocean.
I clearly remember Ian saying that "a new node registers with inform.php on
average every 15 minutes". That's 672 nodes per week. Surely everyone can't
be rebooting all the time! Especially since a good percentage of users would
be linux based, lacking the need to reboot every 5 minutes.
My mind churned with ideas like 'multiple insertion points' - say, doing
HTL=5 inserts to each of (say) 50 to 250 nodes picked randomly from
inform.php, and whether that would be worthy of consideration as standard
insert procedure.
For hours today, and over the last few days, I've freenetmirror'ed files at
varying HTLs. I've shut down my node and rebooted into another transient
node on another IP, and tried to retrieve those files. I've manually gone
through the 3-step retrieval procedure, from DBR update point to dated site
map to physical CHK.
I've sat gazing at console windows, waiting forever to see if a file would
show up.
>From all these hours, I have seen a linear relationship between HTL and
percentage of files visible.
At HTL 100, I'm getting around 60-75% (with request HTL=100 as well) success
rate with file retrieval.
But insertion and request at this HTL takes ages.
(note - all the files I've been hunting are present on my main datastore).
Such phenomena strongly suggest a much greater number of nodes than 100.
But, is there really such a low number of nodes? 100 or less??!?
Surely not!?! But if so, then there's *real* cause for worry!
If that's the case, then the Freenet architecture as it stands might have
real problems.
I'm in the dark here.
Could someone please clarify.
Cheers
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oskar Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:08PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> > "Houston, we have a problem..."
> >
> > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at
present.
> >
> > I was unaware of the issues till I created a new Windows installation on
a fresh partition, and installed a new Freenet on it.
> > While I'm running Freenet from this Windows partition, my main node (and
my datastore) is (of course) offline.
> >
> > Specifically, most keys I insert, even with htl 100, can't be retrieved
from other nodes, not even with htl=100.
>
> Do we even have 100 nodes on the network?
>
>
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