On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:20:27PM +0100, Arjen Meek wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a freenet node on my Linux server, and currently it > automatically (crontab+script) checks to see if a new freenet-latest.jar > is available, and if so, updates&restarts freenet. > However, I read on the Freenetproject website that it is recommended for > large nodes to wait some time before updating. It would be no problem to > let the script download an update, and wait some before actually > updating freenet with it, but the problem is that I have no idea what > delay would be optimal for my node. Can anyone give me a clue? > My datastore is currently 5 GB, I plan to change the limit to 10 GB in > the near future. Upstream bandwidth is limited to 10 kb/sec (by Linux > HTB qdiscs, since the built-in limit doesn't work very well for me; see > http://www.lartc.org if you're interested). Downstream is max. 50 > kb/sec. It is very rare that an update will cause your node to completely stop working at the node side and become useless to freenet. We have had a few problems with the web interface in recent updates. > > Also, how bad is it for freenet when a node restarts? On my Celeron 366 > server Freenet takes at least 5 minutes to fully restart, will > neighbouring nodes that fail to contact my node during that time just > decide to give up and forget about it? Not exactly, but it's no big deal if it's only once a day. > > By the way, I just had some problems subscribing to this list; it seems > that the subscribe page on hawk.freenetproject.org is served from port > 8080, but the form on that page tries to send its contents back to port > 80. (I subscribed by downloading the subscribe page and adding :8080 to > the url that the form submits to) I have been told that people are working on it... we do need to fix it before the 0.5.1 release. > > Arjen
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