I've been thinking on the caching problem recently and it seems to me that it is is indeed disadvantageous to cache aggresively because files cached on the edge of the network have a decreased probability of being found by an arbitrary node. The closer a file is to the epicenter, the greater its global probability of discovery.
So rather than caching all the way back the search path, it would be most advantagous to cache in an expanding ring around the epicenter. This can be done by having a rapidly decaying probability of caching. This is distinctly different than the previous idea about weakening caching, which as I recall was to have each node decide to cache a file or not based on some internal node probability, which would decrease the overall cachedness of a file, but not favor caching near the epicenter. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
