Re: [freenet-support] File upload doesn't start
On 04-Apr-15 8:04 AM, John Pinkman : I am trying to upload one larger file (few GB), and there is no progress. It says STARTING as a status, and it stays this way for hours. I tried from VPN, and from regular wifi on different OS, same result. Tor, and torrent client all work fine, but freenet just doesn't work. There are no error or log messages, it doesn't say what is the problem. I suspect that Freenet expects open ports, or UPnP? It should be able to work without inbound connections. Any idea what is going wrong? For Freenet, a 'few GB' is a very large file to insert. Plz bear in mind, inserts to Freenet have about 100% redundancy meaning a two gigabyte file takes 4GB to upload. Depending on how well your node is connected, you can expect a 2 gigabyte file to take 1 or two days to upload. Also, it is normal for the node to take 12hours+ to encrypt/encode a large file before your node can start actually uploading. You can check your nodes connectivity on the nodes stats page http://127.0.0.1:/stats/ You may want to consider splitting the file into smaller parts, either using 7zip, RAR or a 'plain' file splitter. For your own convenience but also for easier downloading. Speed, or rather: slowness of inserting may be influenced by how large your datastore is, how much memory and bandwidth you've assigned to Freenet and also, by how well your node is configured. ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [freenet-support] File upload doesn't start
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:48:20 AM Bert Massop wrote: On 04-04-15 08:04, John Pinkman wrote: I am trying to upload one larger file (few GB), and there is no progress. It says STARTING as a status, and it stays this way for hours. I tried from VPN, and from regular wifi on different OS, same result. Tor, and torrent client all work fine, but freenet just doesn't work. There are no error or log messages, it doesn't say what is the problem. I suspect that Freenet expects open ports, or UPnP? It should be able to work without inbound connections. Any idea what is going wrong? Hi John, Freenet does indeed expect some ports to be forwarded, and may use UPnP (using the UPnP plugin) to open them for you. At least one end of each node-to-node link should have its ports forwarded for a connection to succeed. If you are connected to enough peers, you should be fine. To rule out any weird connectivity issues, please check if you are able to retrieve any Freenet page at all (I suggest you try some of the default bookmarks). If so, your connectivity is not to blame. Inserting files into Freenet is slow, expect it to take quite some time for large files. The speed at which you are able to upload depends on your configured bandwidth limit, your actual internet connection bandwidth, as well as the number of peers you are connected to and their bandwidths. I'm not entirely sure about the exact semantics of the starting status. Note however that Freenet only updates the progress of an insert after a certain amount of data has been inserted, you might just have to wait a bit longer. If your problems persist, please also indicate the number of peers you are connected to, and please report which Freenet version you are using. Thank you for running Freenet! -- Bert Hey Bert, you got this one wrong: STARTING is as far as I know not about any network issue. It is about one of those I think: - compressing the file - encoding the file into Freenet's on-network format. This includes computing FEC information for example If it hangs there, I would suspect one of those issues: - very large file and slow hard disk. Waiting some more might help - db4o bugs. As a conclusion, the following can be said to John to answer this support request: - If you are using the latest regular official Freenet release 1467, then using a purge-db4o testing release might help. Instructions how to obtain one are on toad's flog, which is in the default bookmarks of Freenet. - If using the testing release is too complicated, you might just wait for 1468 to be released. It should be out rather soon (a few weeks). - There is also a solution available which is even less effort: Try disabling compression for the insert. (Please don't do that for many inserts / for ever as uncompressed inserts take more disk space on the network) Greetings signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
[freenet-support] File upload doesn't start
I am trying to upload one larger file (few GB), and there is no progress. It says STARTING as a status, and it stays this way for hours. I tried from VPN, and from regular wifi on different OS, same result. Tor, and torrent client all work fine, but freenet just doesn't work. There are no error or log messages, it doesn't say what is the problem. I suspect that Freenet expects open ports, or UPnP? It should be able to work without inbound connections. Any idea what is going wrong? ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [freenet-support] File upload doesn't start
On 04-04-15 08:04, John Pinkman wrote: I am trying to upload one larger file (few GB), and there is no progress. It says STARTING as a status, and it stays this way for hours. I tried from VPN, and from regular wifi on different OS, same result. Tor, and torrent client all work fine, but freenet just doesn't work. There are no error or log messages, it doesn't say what is the problem. I suspect that Freenet expects open ports, or UPnP? It should be able to work without inbound connections. Any idea what is going wrong? Hi John, Freenet does indeed expect some ports to be forwarded, and may use UPnP (using the UPnP plugin) to open them for you. At least one end of each node-to-node link should have its ports forwarded for a connection to succeed. If you are connected to enough peers, you should be fine. To rule out any weird connectivity issues, please check if you are able to retrieve any Freenet page at all (I suggest you try some of the default bookmarks). If so, your connectivity is not to blame. Inserting files into Freenet is slow, expect it to take quite some time for large files. The speed at which you are able to upload depends on your configured bandwidth limit, your actual internet connection bandwidth, as well as the number of peers you are connected to and their bandwidths. I'm not entirely sure about the exact semantics of the starting status. Note however that Freenet only updates the progress of an insert after a certain amount of data has been inserted, you might just have to wait a bit longer. If your problems persist, please also indicate the number of peers you are connected to, and please report which Freenet version you are using. Thank you for running Freenet! -- Bert signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
