On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:19:39PM -0700, Ray Heasman wrote:
> Hi Oskar,

Greetings and salutations my good friend Ray!

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:36:39PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
< > 
> > I have actually simulated this, or at least pretty close to it (I
> > simulated only caching when the DataSource is reset, which is 1/30). The
> > results were drasticly worse than when caching.
> 
> I would not be surprised if overall performance decreases. What I would like
> to see is how to get an idea for how the routing algorithm works, and how to
> improve it. It is difficult to make any such adjustments when routing is
> hidden by caching. I see them as different layers to be optimised
> seperately.

I don't think you can seperate the between the routing algorithm and
caching in Freenet. The caching is the routing algorithm.

> > Not caching is most certainly not the right thing to do. We want data to
> > be mobile. It is possible that we may need to move away from the "all
> 
> Why? Why must data be mobile? I dont follow you. Mobile data is data using
> bandwidth unnecessarily. What is your context? What are you actually saying?
> I'm not trying to be difficult, I honestly have nooo idea where you are
> coming from. :-)

Maybe you should consider the goals of this project. There are many ways
to place data on a network so that it can be found.

> > data is equal" maxim when caching - ie that we prioritize having the
> > node keep certain data - but I certain that whether the data arrived by
> > DataRequest or InsertRequest is not the right way to weigh that... 
> 
> *nod* I agree my hypothesis might be wrong, but you have no idea how
> overjoyed I am that you seem to be aware of it. I don't currently have the
> resources myself, but I hope you have a chance to test it.

I will experiment with variations on the caching, but removing it is not
what we want.

-- 
'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?'
'Here,' Montag touched his head.
'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded.

Oskar Sandberg
oskar at freenetproject.org

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