On Tuesday 05 May 2009 07:16:36 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Montag 04 Mai 2009 19:59:15 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide:
> > Am Montag 04 Mai 2009 17:33:30 schrieb Matthew Toseland:
> > > 3. Add a 'pause' feature. (131 votes)
> > >
> > > Remarkably high ranking, I wonder what proportion of our users use 
online
> > > games?
> >
> > Or with other filesharing services (short lived torrents, downloading in
> > Gnutella) or with graphics editing or video editing or just plain 
compiling
> > the new packages or haggling with a completely overloaded E-Mail 
program...
> 
> I just thought about this the other way round: When do I want freenet to use 
> my full CPU power? 
> 
> I got to 
> 
> 1) When I do something which doesn't need much resources, for example 
writing 
> or coding. 
> 
> 2) When I browse freenet myself. 
> 
> 3) When I'm not at my computer and no compiles are running. 
> 
> So a nicer solution might be to have 
> 
> a) a hard pause: stop hard until disabled again, and 
> 
> b) a soft pause: only use less resources while the user is active - except 
if 
> he's firing off manual freenet requests (webinterface). 
> 
> The soft pause could for example use a screensaver as s...@home does to 
detect 
> inactivity. 
> 
> The modes could even be turned around: Soft pause as default mode, so 
freenet 
> is only active while my computer has little other load. 
> 
> The problem with soft pause as default mode could be that users who shut 
down 
> their computers as soon as they leave them would contribute little to the 
> computer, so I think we can discard it. If someone wants it, he should have 
to 
> enable it everytime he starts freenet - with this it's only viable for long 
> running nodes. 

Isn't using a reasonably low scheduling priority enough? And we already do 
that!

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