hal at finney.org wrote: > Theo writes, regarding random announcement: > > A priori it seems like it might be a problem, but in practice when I did > > simulations it seemed to work well enough. Certainly it's a huge > > improvement over inform.php -- the inform-style announcement really broke > > down over 10,000 nodes, and no tweaks I tried could get it any higher, > > whereas the random announcement sailed up to 250,000 nodes (when I ran out > > of memory). > > Do you recall how many nodes received the random announcement when you > simulated this large network?
The announcement message had a HTL of 10. Every node joined using random announcement except for the first 20. > I thought the idea was to reverse the direction of the insert pointers > once random announcement was in? The rationale being two fold: first, > that insert pointers are the way they are now because it is the only > way to announce new nodes, so with a real announcement protocol they can > change; and second, that it is more logical for the insert pointers to go > the other way (towards the center rather than the edges of the network) > so that all pointers point towards nodes that specialize in the keyspace, > consistent with DataRequest caching. > > Did you try any sims with insert pointer reversal plus a random announcement > protocol? That's a good point, I should try that. I'm not going to be able to get around to this until next week, though. theo _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
