Mostly the everything-takes-ages bug was fixed by 6171. Thus asynchronous fproxy can be safely deferred. Hopefully. It should be addressed eventually though.
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:09:20AM +0100, Toad wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:59:16PM -0500, J wrote: > > Quoting Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Current progress: there was a major mess around the time of the merge to > > > unstable, maybe a bit after. A lot of bugs have been fixed and a lot of > > > code converted to use NIO more (DataRequests in particular are now sent > > > asynchronously). The major obvious problem (most of the diagnostics are > > > OK, it's too early to say what the psuccess ratios are like yet) is that > > > fetching files from fproxy can take a ludicrously long time to return. > > > And even if the connection is closed, it continues. So it is pretty easy > > > to kill the web interface for a long time just by trying to load lots of > > > files. Thus, there is a choice: > > > a) Find out why it is taking so long to reply to many requests, or > > > b) Implement some sort of cancellation notification for fproxy, or > > > c) Implement fully asynchronous fproxy. > > > > > > Any opinions? > > > > >From a pure 'software quality' point of view, fix your bugs first (Choice A), > > implement new features second (Choices B & C). 'C' sounds like the best bang > > for the buck from a new feature standpoint. > > Well, I would argue that the current fproxy behaviour is a resource leak > and therefore also a bug. But you are probably right. > > > > > -- > > > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > > > > j. > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -- > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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