On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Toseland
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 19:26:46 Juiceman wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Juiceman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Juiceman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Matthew Toseland
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> We need more seednodes. I will explain the broader situation below. If 
>> >>> you can run a seednode - which means you need a forwarded port, a 
>> >>> reasonably static IP address (or dyndns name), and a reasonable amount 
>> >>> of bandwidth (especially upstream), and a reasonably stable node, please 
>> >>> send me your opennet noderef (from the strangers page in advanced mode), 
>> >>> and enable "Be a seednode" in the advanced config. Thanks.
>> >>>
>> >>> Details:
>> >>>
>> >>> One of the problems Freenet has at the moment is that bootstrapping a 
>> >>> new node can take an awfully long time - 20 minutes or more sometimes. 
>> >>> It is not clear why; we seem to either get rejected by seednodes (most 
>> >>> of the time), or they return nothing, maybe a few "not wanted" notices, 
>> >>> or they return lots of noderefs and we manage to announce.
>> >>>
>> >>> This might be due to bugs. 1343 fixed a bug that apparently badly 
>> >>> affected some seednodes. However it appears most seednodes have upgraded 
>> >>> now.
>> >>>
>> >>> There doesn't seem to be a problem with losing connections - backoff yes 
>> >>> but once a node is connected it seems to mostly stay connected.
>> >>>
>> >>> The most likely answer seems to be that we just don't have enough 
>> >>> seednodes to cope with the load.
>> >>>
>> >>> It is also possible that this is due to an attack. It did come on 
>> >>> relatively suddenly a few weeks ago (it was bad before but it got much 
>> >>> worse), and it seems to have got significantly worse in the last week. 
>> >>> It is not clear how we would identify an attack if that was the problem; 
>> >>> there are no obvious signs so far.
>> >>>
>> >>> It is also possible it is a client-side bug. Testing of the master 
>> >>> branch would be useful, it has some small changes.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Errors in my log (build 1344)
>> >
>> > Also nodestats have been horrible on my seednode for last week or two.
>> >  I am noticing node ping times in the 1500 - 3500 ms range.  Mostly
>> > during daytime hours here (GMT -5).  Not sure if ATT Uverse has
>> > quietly started throttling p2p (they say they don't), or if it is an
>> > attack or bug.  Seeding for 206 is typical and didn't kill my node in
>> > the past.  Let me know what logger settings to set and I can send you
>> > my logs if you want.
>> >
>> > Peer statistics
>> >
>> >    * Connected: 15
>> >    * Backed off: 3
>> >    * Too old: 67
>> >    * Disconnected: 13
>> >    * Never connected: 5
>> >    * Clock Problem: 1
>> >    * Seeding for: 206
>> >    * Max peers: 36
>> >    * Max strangers: 36
>> >
>> > Bandwidth
>> >
>> >    * Input Rate: 48.2 KiB/s (of 1.0 MiB/s)
>> >    * Output Rate: 31.6 KiB/s (of 105 KiB/s)
>> >    * Session Total Input: 49.2 MiB (43.7 KiB/s average)
>> >    * Session Total Output: 35.7 MiB (31.7 KiB/s average)
>> >    * Payload Output: 214 KiB (190 B/sec)(0%)
>> >
>>
>> Node status overview
>>
>>     * bwlimitDelayTime: 2947ms
>>     * bwlimitDelayTimeBulk: 2893ms
>>     * bwlimitDelayTimeRT: 9078ms
>>     * nodeAveragePingTime: 2315ms
>>     * darknetSizeEstimateSession: 0 nodes
>>     * opennetSizeEstimateSession: 833 nodes
>>     * nodeUptimeSession: 26m34s
>>     * nodeUptimeTotal: 8w2d
>>     * routingMissDistanceLocal: 0.0650
>>     * routingMissDistanceRemote: 0.0141
>>     * routingMissDistanceOverall: 0.0261
>>     * backedOffPercent: 22.3%
>>     * pInstantReject: 95.8%
>>     * unclaimedFIFOSize: 2663
>>     * RAMBucketPoolSize: 12.8 MiB / 150 MiB
>>     * uptimeAverage: 99.3%
>
> Ping times that high mean your node won't accept any requests at all, 
> although it might accept some announcements.
>
> Usually this is caused by network or CPU problems. When I've run my seednode 
> lately it hasn't had high ping times, nor have any of my other nodes.
>
> The NPE is fixed btw.

I have a tech coming out to diagnose my DSL issues, but the last
several builds have improved my ping times.
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