On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:05:10AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On February 27, 2003 11:39 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I am somewhat concerned that the datastore data size limit of 1/200th of > > the total datastore size is less than an optimal solution. > > > > Current behavior is that if someone decides to have a datastore of less > > than 200MB (or is it 256?), then even 1MB chunks of data won't be cached > > on that node, although the user will still be able to download such > > data. > > > > Let's think about that, any user who initially decides to give Freenet > > less than 200MB will automatically start leaching larger chunks of data > > without storing them locally. Someone who opted (as I do) to devote > > 50MB to Freenet will not cache anything larger than about 500k, even > > though I will be able to get such data from other users in the network > > who do. > > > > I see this as a problem, it doesn't really disadvantage those who opt > > for smaller datastores yet it ensures that the network as a whole is > > significantly disadvantaged by such users. > > > > This can't be the only way to do this. I dislike chosing arbitrary > > limits where it can be avoided, but if we must have one, I think setting > > a fixed maximum size on data which a datastore will cache (say 1MB) > > would be better than setting a variable limit based on the somewhat > > arbitrary 1/200th ratio that we currently employ. > > I would rather see a larger minimum datastore size.
LOL. 256MB is plenty. Ian is way outside the allowed range even after my changes. Future builds will log an error to both the log and stderr if the store is less than 101MB. > > Ed Tomlinson -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-23.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/fkdUH8mp7-g/ ICTHUS.
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