On Wednesday 21 January 2009 21:56, Zero3 wrote: > Matthew Toseland skrev: > > IMHO we should ask the user how much disk space, and possibly how much > > bandwidth, they want Freenet to use in the installer. A number of users > > uninstalled because Freenet used an unexpectedly large amount of disk space. > > We can show a sane default based on our current rules, and the user can just > > click Continue if they are happy with it. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > IMO you should try to always ask the user before doing something he > might not agree with. Allocating disk space and bandwidth is something I > believe many users will care about - hence I think we should ask about > it. For cross-platform support reasons I think the settings belong to > the wizard. I think neither datastore nor bandwidth should be > allocated/used before user has agreed on the settings.
This isn't strictly true atm but the defaults are very conservative. The default store size is 50MB. > > > Also, our current rules may be in need of some revision: > > > > Datastore size: > > 256MB if <5GB free > > 512MB if <=10GB free > > 10% if <=20GB free > > 5% if >20GB free > > > > A simpler formula would probably be better. Maybe 5%, with a minimum of 100MB? > > > > ~10% of (FreeSpace + CurrentDatastoreSize), dynamically updated with > some kind of buffer? Perhaps. Note that the above depends on java 1.6 support, which we access via reflection, and fall back to asking the user with a list of sane-ish options... > > - Zero3
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