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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