On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:15:28PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2003 12:42 pm, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:43:28PM -0400, Ken Corson wrote:
> > > 20,000 . Of course, trying to estimate the size of Freenet is next
> > > to impossible, but I'll take a stab :) Any other gamblers out there ?
> >
> > A few months ago I collected noderefs from my own and several other
> > peoples nodes and counted the number of unique, reachable ones. Judging
> > from the rate of growth of the number of reachable nodes, I strongly
> > doubt there being more than 2000 nodes, and probably less than half
> > that number (I think I ended up with having 400 reachable nodes or
> > something like that, check the list archives).
> 
> I don't know about your methods, however your conclusion makes no sense at 
> all. Try setting your max connections to 2000 or so. If what you are saying 
> is correct you should not be able to fill it. Second this would mean the 
> because the default max connections is 512, and AFAIK most nodes connection 
> lists are full, then most nodes are connected to a sizeable portion of the 
> network. If this were true, queries should not take more than a few hops to 
> find the data on the network if it is there at all. I often find data that I 
> can get at HTL=25 but not at 15. Also consider this: how much data is 
> available and retrievable on Freenet? All that data must be on a computer 
> somewhere. Given all the sights that have ISOs, movies, Image etc. archives 
> that are very large, and the very small default datastore size, I can't see 
> how that would work out unless very large numbers of people were upping it 
> substantially. Finally the number of downloads for any given VERSION of 
> freenet is higher than this. Even though not all those people are running 
> permanent nodes there are surely at least that many users.

There is no reason for it all to be cached on a single store. Which
seems to be what you are suggesting. But the Windoze installer defaults
to 10% of available disk space, and unix users will probably generally
set a larger store than the default.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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