On Wednesday 02 September 2009 20:21:02 Michael Yip wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Attached is my locations file. > > I've been running an experiment of a small Darknet of 4 nodes and my > node has 3 peers. They were not fully interconnected. > > A peer of mine sends 1000 requests and one of the 3 nodes (including > mine, randomly chosen) was restarted after every 10 requests have been > sent by my peer. > > The frequency of the location change tells me that location of my node > changes pretty frequently. Also, the location can vary by a huge amount e.g. > > 02-Sep-2009 00:50:44 : 0.8453261772531677 > 02-Sep-2009 00:51:19 : 0.006713131335581379 > > This would limit the ability for a node to specialize it's datastore right?
Swapping will only stabilise if the network is actually small-world. A network of 4 nodes is unlikely to meet the criterion. :| > > Thanks a lot, > > Michael > > > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 18:40:21 Michael Yip wrote: > > > >> So that means that if one of my peers restarts, location swapping would > >> occur and as a result, the location of my node may change to avoid any > >> collision? > >> > > > > No, not usually. > > > >> > >> Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> > >>> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 15:57:09 Michael Yip wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi guys, > >>>> > >>>> Can someone explain to me what is logged in the file locations.log.txt? > >>>> > >>>> Here's my guess. It logs the location changes of my node and this > >>>> prevents my node from specializing in storing a subset of the keyspace? > >>>> I'm guessing this only happens in Darknet as it would decrease > >>>> performance... > >>>> > >>>> Am I correct? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> On darknet nodes, the location can change due to location swapping. This > >>> is necessary to make routing work on a darknet. I suggest you look at > >>> some of the stuff in the papers section of the website, starting with the > >>> CCC video: > >>> > >>> http://freenetproject.org/papers.html > >>> http://freenetproject.org/22c3vid.html > >>> > >>> > >>>> Thanks a lot, > >>>> > >>>> Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090902/92beb447/attachment.pgp>
