On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:18:47PM -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> bolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I'm curious as to what I can do that would be best for freenet.
> > 
> > I can run either the latest stable or latest unstable build, I don't have a
> > preference.  The computer that I run it on is not used for anything else, mostly.
> > 
> Latest unstable; there's always a bunch of fixes that haven't made it
> into the stable builds.
> 
> > I have TONS of disk space available.  I currently have a 10GB data store but
> > would have no problem devoting up to 150GB.
> > 
> 10GB is plenty.  150GB would probably be unnecessary and not taken
> advantage of any more than 10GB.

I'm not sure about that. I've had much bigger stores. One way to measure
it is to look at the least/most recent dates on the Environment page.
There's no point artificially throttling it. Also, one thing that lots
of disk space does help, is debugging - debug logs can get _big_, so if
you run into any problems, that could be helpful.
> 
> > I have very limited uplink speeds however.  I can devote 4-6KB/s average.
> > 
> This is a big limitation; my intuition is that the network is finally
> getting to the point that most nodes are hitting their bandwidth
> limits, instead of being limited by other factors.  If more bandwidth
> were possible, that'd be great, but every little bit helps.

Right. NGRouting will eliminate any drain caused by effective nodes with
low bandwidth... otoh, 6kB/sec is rather low...
> 
> > I'm unsure which builds to run.  I'm also unclear as to if a larger data store
> > would be helpful since my uplink is so poor.  Would a larger data store with a
> > poor uplink be bad for the network?
> > 
> I don't think it'll be bad for the network, it'll just not be as
> useful as a big node with lots of bandwidth.

Agreed.
> 
> > I want to help and unfortunately don't know java, but I have a stable dedicated
> > server with a shit load of disk space!
> > 
> > j.
> 
> Thanks for the support,
> Thelema
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