Are you running a script or something that updates your seednodes before
restarting the node? It reseeds if the seednodes.ref is more recent than
the routing table...

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:56:51AM +0200, Niklas Bergh wrote:
> > > > Primarily the fact that the graphical representation of it (under
> > "Routing
> > > > table" or on the "Node Reference Status" page), instead of looking
> nice
> > > and
> > > > healthy with plenty of routing 'knowledge' (resembling a barcode),
> > starts
> > > off
> > > > almost completely white with just a handful of thin stripes. Over a
> day
> > or
> > > > so, coverage increases.
> > >
> > > Same over here.... Cannot tell for sure that it happens every time I
> > restart
> > > but I definitely has seen the 'barcode' cleared when the node is freshly
> > > started.
> >
> > I can now say that it definitely not happens every time...We'll see if I
> can
> > provoke it to happen again..
> 
> One thing that happens though is that is seems to appear a lot of new (old
> really) nodes in the routing table during a restart. After a restart after
> 10 hrs of uptime the version histogram looks something like:
> Fred,0.4,1.46,522  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5007 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5009 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5010 |==
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5012 |==
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5014 |====
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5015 |============
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5017 |==========
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5018 |========
> Fred,0.5,1.46,534  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,567  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,568  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,570  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,571  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,572  |==
> Fred,0.5,1.46,598  |=
> Fred,0.6,1.46,6119 |=
> And I remember looking at it right before restart and thinking 'whoa, seems
> to be only 50xx nodes in the network nowadays'..
> 
> The, after the node has been running for an hour or so the version histogram
> looks like:
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5004 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5007 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5009 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5010 |==
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5012 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5014 |===
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5015 |=============
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5017 |=========
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5018 |================
> Fred,0.6,1.46,6122 |=
> Fred,0.6,1.46,6508 |=
> 
> At that point I restarted the node and again there magically appeared bunch
> of old-versioned nodes in the rt (I have seen larger mutations than this
> happen though.. maybe the mutation level is a product of uptime in some
> way..)
> Fred,0.4,1.46,519  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5007 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5009 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5010 |==
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5012 |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5014 |===
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5015 |============
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5017 |=========
> Fred,0.5,1.46,5018 |===============
> Fred,0.5,1.46,545  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,563  |=
> Fred,0.5,1.46,598  |=
> Fred,0.6,1.46,6508 |=
> 
> There is also an awful lot of orphaned properties being removed during rt
> initialization. I have seen 449 properties beeing reduced to 98, 170 down to
> 90 and 119 down to 100. The initial number (449 etc) seems to be tightly
> related to my node:s uptime. The 449 props where from 48 hrs of uptime, the
> 170 from 10 hrs and 119 from 1 hour. Isn't this the bulk of my node:s
> routing knowledge beeing removed?
> 
> I have not yet looked into the code much to try to figure out the cause of
> these odd behaviours but I remember something from a release notification
> from quite a while back about 'selecting a random set of seednodes from
> seednodes.ref', could that be related to this in some way (a quick glance at
> the code hints that it isn't so, but still it would be good to get some
> confirmation on this from someone)?
> 
> Could someone do a similar test with their node to rule out that I am the
> only one that this happens to. To see how many properties that are removed
> when you restart you can count the number of
> '(freenet.node.rt.DataObjectRoutingStore, main, NORMAL): Removing orphaned
> property.....' rows written to the log during node startup.
> 
> I will not be able to look into this for a couple of days since I am going
> for a weekend vacation later today.
> /N
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