Am Montag 04 Mai 2009 19:59:15 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide:
> Am Montag 04 Mai 2009 17:33:30 schrieb Matthew Toseland:
> > 3. Add a 'pause' feature. (131 votes)
> >
> > Remarkably high ranking, I wonder what proportion of our users use online
> > games?
>
> Or with other filesharing services (short lived torrents, downloading in
> Gnutella) or with graphics editing or video editing or just plain compiling
> the new packages or haggling with a completely overloaded E-Mail program...
I just thought about this the other way round: When do I want freenet to use
my full CPU power?
I got to
1) When I do something which doesn't need much resources, for example writing
or coding.
2) When I browse freenet myself.
3) When I'm not at my computer and no compiles are running.
So a nicer solution might be to have
a) a hard pause: stop hard until disabled again, and
b) a soft pause: only use less resources while the user is active - except if
he's firing off manual freenet requests (webinterface).
The soft pause could for example use a screensaver as seti at home does to
detect
inactivity.
The modes could even be turned around: Soft pause as default mode, so freenet
is only active while my computer has little other load.
The problem with soft pause as default mode could be that users who shut down
their computers as soon as they leave them would contribute little to the
computer, so I think we can discard it. If someone wants it, he should have to
enable it everytime he starts freenet - with this it's only viable for long
running nodes.
Best wishes,
Arne
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