Re: [freenet-support] Usability improvement ideas

2003-10-31 Thread Doug Bostrom
On Friday 31 October 2003 07:37, Ian Clarke wrote: So, this email is an invitation to anyone that has constructive criticism or suggestion's for how Freenet's first impression can be enhanced. Topics include installation, FProxy, even the website's layout. Ian. The splitfile interface

[freenet-support] Now logged in as MikaMikado on freenetproject.org

2002-11-22 Thread Doug Bostrom
But I'm not that person, FYI. -- Americans generally do the right thing, after first exhausting all the available alternatives. - Winston Churchill ___ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[freenet-support] ADSL chaos issue

2002-11-21 Thread Doug Bostrom
Greetings, I'm reposting an earlier reply to Matthew about an issue that I'm still puzzling over. I think Matthew may not have noticed my reply, and I think his original reply to my original post about dealing with asymmetric connections replicates a mistaken conclusion that I also made. If

Re: [freenet-support] ADSL chaos issue

2002-11-21 Thread Doug Bostrom
On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:14 am, you wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:26:10AM -0500, Doug Bostrom wrote: Greetings, (blah blah) As I understand it, some requests arriving at my node are forwarded to other nodes, with the results being passed back through my node toward

Re: [freenet-support] Whining again about bandwidth

2002-11-13 Thread Doug Bostrom
11/13/02 4:42:36 PM, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have things pinched off to 10K up and down, on the premise that since we're on ADSL here I can't allow more That's the combined limit or the individual limits? Individual. I use 20k down, 5k up, on a 512/128 cable modem (I have

[freenet-support] Whining again about bandwidth

2002-11-11 Thread Doug Bostrom
Greetings, 534 seems to be running just great. For me there's just one remaining problem, which is that I still don't seem to be able to get bandwidth under control. I have things pinched off to 10K up and down, on the premise that since we're on ADSL here I can't allow more relayed data

Re: [freenet-support] firewall configuration

2002-11-05 Thread Doug Bostrom
The internal IP address will have to be that of the box actually running the node, not the firewall's internal address. Also don't forget that with that model firewall you'll need to reboot it once virtual server changes are made. On Monday 04 November 2002 09:01 pm, you wrote: I’m new to the

Re: [freenet-support] 24/7 node

2002-11-02 Thread Doug Bostrom
You need to set transient=false. You may also want to set overloadlow=.60 and overloadhigh=.65 -- Democracies die behind closed doors. - Judge Damon Keith ___ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [freenet-support] 24/7 node

2002-11-02 Thread Doug Bostrom
11/2/02 4:41:37 PM, Silver Tear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know transient=false has to be set, thats not the problem. The problem is once it is set to be a 24/7 node, it won't accept any connections from me. The reason I mention transient is that in the config file you included in your mail it

Re: [freenet-support] 24/7 node

2002-11-02 Thread Doug Bostrom
11/2/02 3:54:02 PM, Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: overloadlow? overloadhigh? Are these new/undocumented settings? I am using http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/CLO as my freenet.conf reference...is there a better location? overloadhigh and overloadlow are in the config file,

[freenet-support] Protocol for stopping/restarting?

2002-10-31 Thread Doug Bostrom
Questions regarding the correct method to stop and restart a node. This morning I upgraded to 604 and started it, and it runs very well. I stopped the node to reload some relaxed paramenters in freenet.conf and then restarted it, all within about 30 seconds or a minute. As soon as the node

Re: [freenet-support] Protocol for stopping/restarting?

2002-10-31 Thread Doug Bostrom
On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:34 am, you wrote: Questions regarding the correct method to stop and restart a node. This morning I upgraded to 604 and started it, and it runs very well. I stopped the node to reload some relaxed paramenters in freenet.conf and then restarted it, all within

[freenet-support] Connections running amok

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
Greetings, Checking my node this morning, (after waiting for top to come up, swap swap swap) I found I had some 155 java processes going. Any way to control this? Right now I can either run a node or work, not both. Maxnodeconnections seems to have no effect on the number of connections the

Re: [freenet-support] Connections running amok

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:55 pm, you wrote: Use the bandwidth limiter to prevent it swamping your connection. It is expected to use lots (up to 120) threads - they should normally be almost all idling. The current situation is a product of the network being slashdotted, and

Re: [freenet-support] Freenet

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:45 pm, you wrote: I wanted to write and tell you how displeased I am with your software. I installed it and it is cumbersome to use. It is being touted as a P2P app. This does not appear to be the case. Never could figure it out. I made yadda-yadda That has

Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0.5.0.2

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:09 pm, you wrote: Freenet 0.5.0.2 is now available for download. Please upgrade to this version, and inform us of any problems. This includes some important load balancing code that should help the network to get out of the dire state it is in following Monday's

[freenet-support] results w/527

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
Pipe still saturates. I cut maxthreads to 40, then 20. Connections stayed at 45, pooled jobs at 98, java processes somewhere over 100. Load at 90+. Bandwidth adjustments via freenet.conf have zero effect. OTH, I don't see in the support thread that others are having the same issue with

Re: [freenet-support] results w/527

2002-10-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
10/29/02 9:59:00 PM, Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. The bandwidth limiter is not working then? Not as far as I can tell, or least very little. I have bandwidth set to 8k both ways, threads set to 20, and I'm showing something like 200 processes right just now and my

[freenet-support] Load

2002-10-28 Thread Doug Bostrom
Persistent node (525) here showing 100% load (106% and change right now) most of the time. Is this something to worry about? And if it is, is there any information you'd like to see? -- Democracies die behind closed doors. - Judge Damon Keith ___

[freenet-support] bandwidth limiting, maxnodeconnections

2002-10-28 Thread Doug Bostrom
Partly as an experiment to see if I can reduce the load on my node reduced and partly to see if I can restore Net connectivity to users here on the lan I've been playing around with freenet.config bandwidth and maxnodeconnections parameters. I've cut (and obviously I don't want these to be

[freenet-support] bandwidth limiting, maxnodeconnections

2002-10-28 Thread Doug Bostrom
Partly as an experiment to see if I can reduce the load on my node reduced and partly to see if I can restore Net connectivity to users here on the lan I've been playing around with freenet.config bandwidth and maxnodeconnections parameters. I've cut (and obviously I don't want these to be

[freenet-support] A few last questions

2002-10-28 Thread Doug Bostrom
For today, anyway. I've now got maxnodeconnections set to just 10, hoping that I can throttle traffic back to the point where other types of traffic can work here along with Freenet. Looking at my connections page on fproxy, I see it's reporting 48 connections even with the ridiculously scaled

[freenet-support] What to run

2002-10-27 Thread Doug Bostrom
At this point is it better for Freenet for a persistent node to be running .5 or the 600 builds, if a node operator must choose? -- Democracies die behind closed doors. - Judge Damon Keith ___ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[freenet-support] 524 won't lift off

2002-10-25 Thread Doug Bostrom
Hmm, just updated with 524 and for the first time since running the 5xx builds I cannot retrieve FE. Ran out of runway at 15 hops. GPL is gettable though. Persistent node here. -- Sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures. - George W. Bush

[freenet-support] Plunging hoptimes?

2002-10-23 Thread Doug Bostrom
You ain't seen nothing yet. Hop times are about to reduce by a factor of 3, at least. You mean beyond what we've already seen w/ the 5pre stuff so far? And how? Thanks! -- Democracies die behind closed doors. - Judge Damon Keith ___ support

[freenet-support] Disk space, datastore rollover

2002-10-21 Thread Doug Bostrom
Now that 5pre is out, I'm seeing my datastore filling rapidly. 3 days ago I started with the default 200MB allocation, I had to increase that to 400MB yesterday, and today I moved the ds over to an unused 2GB drive on the box the node is on. I don't expect the new disk to last long given the

[freenet-support] 0.3.9.1+IBM 1.3 JDK+Linux 2.2.14 = Splat?

2001-05-29 Thread Doug Bostrom
Wondering if anybody else has seen this. I've been running 0.3.9.1 on i386 Linux 2.2.14 w/ IBM JDK 1.3. successfully since 0.3.9.1 was released. Tons of traffic, lots of storage and retrieval happening, everything seemed to be working smoothly. A couple of days ago the box the whole affair