> Is the datastore the file store_10711? It is 1.2Gb > in size, which seems rather a lot. It's too big now > to load into memory so I can't even examine it. If > it is node references, at about 1Kb each that means > there are about a million! Thanks again for your > easy-to-understand help.
you seem to run windows, under linux you could take mc (the midnight commander - a norton clone) to view big files without loading them completely into memory. the data store file is named store_<portnumber> when you do not give a name in the configuration file (freenet.ini or freenet.conf); you can only see something in it, when you disabled the data store encryption in the freenet configuration file (but changing this implies deleting the present data store file). the store contains the node references, the routing table, and the rest of the space is used for the keys you download from freenet. you can see this as a cache for already requested data, and, when your node is permanent, it contains the keys that your node fetched for other requests, too. when you use your node, the data store fills up, and when it's full, the node starts to remove the least recently used keys, to store newer ones. but don't worry, you have to surf a lot with freenet until the store is full. all permanent nodes together build the "giant" freenet data pool. 1.2gig for the data store is fairly big, and you don't have to extend it, when it is filled up with keys, because freenet is no "eternity device". content which is requested gets copied to other nodes on the way to the request originator, so the next time it is requested from another user, the data is delivered quicker. on the other hand, content which is not requested from any user (maybe because it is not relevant, or of no value) is "lost" after some time, when the data is thrown out of the last node. as i said "lost", it is not really a loss, because no one wanted it before - remember, every successful request raises the availability of content. after the last use or a particular content, you have to overthrow your node with around 1.2gig other data to get the particular key out of your store. and you can only make an assumption for your node. phew, complicated world - long text... have fun! by the way, have you looked at http://freenetproject.org/ ? there you can find the FAQ and some other useful explanations of the freenet system. mfg The Bishop you can't remember everything - just remember where to look for _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
