When a splitfile download finishes it often has a tendency to hang on "FEC decoding missing data blocks... this may take a while; please be patient." seemingly forever. I know this is a known bug to some but I'm not sure if everyone knows about it.
When I try to cancel the download (usually while it is supposedly FEC decoding) so I can try again it takes forever and I have to shutdown the node to get it to stop so I can restart the download. An idea: I have 40G of ds only half of which is used after months of operation. I am on a DS-3 so my node doesn't lack for bandwidth and I always run the latest rev. This isn't good. Empty space in the ds is wasted space and hurts freenet performance. It would be helpful if there was something in fnp which allowed a node with a partially full ds to ask one of its peers to give it a key, preferably one in the requesting nodes area of specialization (isn't some specialiation info sent out in announcement requests?) but any data at all would be better than an empty datastore and having to poll keys and hope to get lucky in order to get the datastore to fill up. I don't think I have ever had pcaching kick in because I have never been able to fill my store. If everyone would fill their datastores when their node started up I bet our psuccess would increase significantly. -- Tracy Reed http://copilotconsulting.com
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