On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:57:04PM -0000, Simon Porter wrote: > Hi. Just thought I'd pass on something I have noticed recently with the > performance of freesites and frost. > > Up until recently when uploading in Frost it has uploaded the whole > entire file. Just recently though Jantho has added a feature in Frost > where you can request files if they cannot be found in the network. > Along with that feature he seems to have changed the default behaviour > of uploading files. In version 021111 instead of uploading the file it > instead just uploads a listing of that particular file. Now when trying > to download a file listed in the search results it will start > broadcasting a request for the file if it isn't found on the network. > Whenever a person who happens to be online and also has the file is > online that file is then uploaded and the person who requested the file > can now download it. Hmmm. > > In terms of being able to download files it actually seems worse now > because 1) not everyone is running Frost 24/7 and 2) this only seems to > work best for small files. Although this system results in more traffic > (sending requests etc). the benefit this brings is a decreased demand on > the storage space of the network. Hmmmmmmm. > > I have really noticed this in the last couple of days. When looking on > The Freedom Engine I have noticed a huge increase in the number of > active links being successfully downloaded. What does everyone else > think of this and have you experienced the same thing yourselves? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
TFE has been reorganized in the last few days - are you sure it's not just that? -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03 http://freenetproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021128/43df13ca/attachment.pgp>
