On Friday 02 April 2010 17:43:25 Evan Daniel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 02 April 2010 17:31:13 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 04:27:24 Evan Daniel wrote:
> >> > You should really send these to the support list; that's what it's for.
> >> >
> >> > You can change the physical security level setting independently of
> >> > the network seclevels -- see configuration -> security levels.
> >> >
> >> > I'm not sure what else to suggest at this point. ?You could try
> >> > increasing the amount of ram for temp buckets (configuration -> core
> >> > settings), but that's mostly a stab in the dark.
> >> >
> >> > I suspect you need to reduce the amount of stuff in your queue.
> >>
> >> Thanks Evan for helping Daniel. In theory it ought to be possible to have 
> >> a nearly unlimited number of downloads in the queue: That is precisely why 
> >> we decided to use a database to store the progress of downloads. 
> >> Unfortunately, in practice, disks are slow, and the more stuff is queued, 
> >> the less of it will be cached in RAM i.e. the more reliant we are on slow 
> >> disks.
> >>
> >> There are many options for optimising the code so that it uses the disk 
> >> less. But unfortunately they are all a significant amount of work.
> >>
> >> See https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=4031 and the bugs it is 
> >> marked as related to.
> >
> > So I guess the real question here is, how important is it that we be able 
> > to queue 60 downloads and still have acceptable performance? How many users 
> > use Freenet filesharing in that sort of way?
> 
> All of them, I suspect.  If a file is mostly downloaded, but not
> complete, the natural response seems to be to leave it there in hopes
> it will complete, and add other files in the mean time.  Combined with
> unretrievable files due to missing blocks, this will produce very
> large download queues.

So this bug should be fairly high priority, despite its potentially being quite 
a lot of work?:

https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=4031
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