On November 21, 2003 11:01 am, Ian Clarke wrote: > Niklas Bergh wrote: > >>The initial "virgin" estimator should give worse estimates than all but > >>the most dismal experienced estimators. This means longer estimated > >>retrieval times. > > > > For all keys or just most? > > Initially - all keys.
I agree with this but, think that it should have a better bad estimate for the area of the keyspace that was determine by the announcement. Ed > > Good question.. I am basing that theory on the fact that tessiers > > (month-long+ ?) forced datastore specialization ought to have affected > > the networks opinion on his node if some aspect of the current NGR > > algorithm wasn't actively countering his actions. This was before > > estimator pass-around though, maybe it would behave differently now... > > The problem I described in my original email amply explains why > tessier's node would despecialize in this situation. > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
