On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:36:43AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I was just wondering if Ian and others feel that multi-area > > specialization is a requirement for Freenet to work (i.e. stems > > from a conscious design decision) or just something that is a > > consequence of the current Freenet implementation. > > I wouldn't say it is necessarily a requirement, however I think that > assuming a single area of specialization violates what I think should be > a node's intuitive contract with other nodes in the network - namely > that it will endeavor to cache whatever other nodes expect it to cache > (rather than trying to manipulate other nodes into perceiving it to > specialize in a certain area). > > I know its hand-wavy, but such is the nature of emergent architectures. Hmmmm. If we're going to do selective caching (which we haven't yet done, and which is pointless until we fix the datastore bugs), we probably should involve the success probability of the key in the calculation; this is the number of successful requests over the total number of inbound requests in a given keyspace segment (there are 256 segments), and is calculated for overload triage now... > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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