On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:41:35PM +0000, Toad wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:39:22PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > 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. > > You could spider Fredweb... There are security issues with a give me a > random file command. They were discussed some time ago...
Actually, the obvious security issue is a hopsToLive problem, which is easily solved - just make the request drop randomly, with a fixed probability (say 0.05), and don't have a hopsToLive value. This makes the time taken by the request extremely variable, but this isn't a problem if it's only used to fill the store. However there may be more serious issues. Such a command would have been useful for certain whacky schemes involving XORing, that's why it was discussed last time. Anyway, the more serious issue: would it dilute the node's specialization? It probably would... Also, we may be trying to treat the symptoms here - what is your outgoing bandwidth? What is you maximum threads? What is your local and global query traffic and your psuccess? Maybe your node isn't getting much traffic? -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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