On Tuesday 07 October 2003 12:14 am, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:11:12AM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck spake thusly: > > Yes, I got that. However in order to represent an aria of fast responce, > > you need to be using at least three of those points. In reality perhaps > > four or more. If that is the case, NGrouting is not well suited for > > multiple or intermittent arias of specialization. That is fine, but it > > means that it probably would not mix all that well with the existing > > network, because it is hard for it to estimate the specialization of > > nodes that are not using it. > > Not to be a spelling flamer but do you mean "area" or is "aria" a word > with which I am simply not familiar?
Both. > The way I understand it we do not want nodes to have multiple areas of > specialization. It is much better for each node to specialize in one area. > > > One thing that could be done to combat this would be to force > > specialization. Not in the since that a node is forced to a particular > > aria of > > specialization, but just that is forced to develop one. (regardless of > > what it is) > > I have experimented with trying to force specialization by simply removing > keys from my ds which are not in my desired area of specialization. Then I > look at the keys that are being requested from me to see if the rest of > the network is learning. So far it isn't. :( That is not entirely suprising, however if the nodes were selecting which keys go into the store and also which ones should be removed to make room, I think it would preform better then you doing it manually. (Especially if you windup freeing up enough space that you disable pcaching.) _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
