I've rented a machine with 24GB ram and 8 cores. Matthew has the login
info. Hopefully others can donate more testing resources.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Matthew Toseland
<t...@amphibian.dyndns.org>wrote:

> On Friday 03 May 2013 13:31:04 Michael Grube wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, the reality may be even worse: Even without attackers, churn in
> the
> > > network causes "natural" degeneration; we randomise periodically to
> try to
> > > correct this.
> > >
> > > Note that we are probably immune to their third attack due to using a
> > > commit/reveal on swapping. However the first two are real enough and
> can't
> > > be beaten by commit/reveal.
> > >
> > > We could implement this tomorrow. What exactly do we need to determine
> > > before doing so? We could validate the implementation, and compare it
> to
> > > current swapping, in a many-nodes-one-VM simulator (we can simulate
> approx
> > > 100 to 500 "real" nodes on one high end system).
> > >
> >
> > That's interesting. What do you consider high end? If it will actually
> > help, I'll rent some cloud hardware. I'm not sure about supporting 10,000
> > nodes, but maybe 2 or 3 thousand from me.
>
> Relatively high CPU and RAM. It's only needed because we still encrypt, of
> course. We could make this much more efficient by modifying the node a bit.
>
> Obviously we slow things down a lot, run relatively few requests, small
> stores etc.
>
> See freenet/node/simulator/RealNode*Test
>
> Note that I've never distributed this between multiple systems...
>
> It's a spectacularly inefficient simulation, but since it uses the real
> code, it's useful for sanity checking. Might be worth making it more
> efficient in future...
>
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