On Tuesday 21 January 2003 13:59, you wrote:

> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:18:02PM +0100, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 21. January 2003 18:06, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > > Is the "healing blocks" options switched on by default?  Obviously it
> > > should be or it won't be nearly as effective.
> >
> > In the unstable build it's not option. It's two fields in the download
> > interface. Default (as per gj's code) is 5%, HTL 5. At the moment the
> > min-value for the percentage is 0. We could raise it to 5 or 10 to
> > enforce healing...
>
> How is it interfaced? It just runs in the background after the fetch is
> finished?
The healing blocks are re-inserted after each segment is decoded.  In that 
sense it doesn't run in the background.  The data is written before the 
healing re-insertions, so for single segment splitfiles the user shouldn't 
notice much impact. single segment == <16Mb

For multisegment downloads it does slow things down slightly.

>
> Also, I think the HTL should be raised to 15 or so...
My thinking is to leave the default as low as is actually useful, and allow 
people who want to "sponser" content more actively re-insert at higher htl's.

The aggregate effect of people re-inserting even at low htl's should be 
pretty substantial.  Has anyone looked into how healing works in OceanStore?  
Maybe we could lean on their empirical data to chose re-insertion 
percentages/htls in a more principled way.  5 was just a guess.

--gj

>
> > > Ian.
> >
> > --
> >  * David 'Bombe' Roden

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