On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:33:58 -0800 Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Certain nodes, one in particular (sadpony.dyndns) or something like that seem > to form a lot of connections with my own node. Why is this necassary? I > understand that you don't have the ability to send data in both directions > with one connection yet, but shouldn't two connections per node do the trick? > (one for upstream, one for downstream) As mentioned in this forum, too many > connections actually slow down network traffic.
FYI, you're not alone in seeing this phenomenon: freespeech.no-ip.org, Ver: 5050 Data queued 13 MiB Data transfered 3,056 KiB Messages queued 0 Messages handled 24400 Time (idle/life) 18 s/213:16 Open connections 152 That host, for example, is taking 152 of my 512 connections. I'm open to corrections on any of the following: The number of connections to a particular node will fluxuate depending on the number of different transfers going on between your node and that node. One up and one down is not enough with the way things currently work; if you're transferring multiple keys in either direction, more connections will be opened to support the multiple transfers. I don't know for sure what determines which nodes "like" your node or vice versa, but I suspect it's based upon their favorability within your routing table. Taking a look at my Node Reference Status, freespeech.no-ip.org appears to be the node with the highest Contact Probability (0.9987728). Thus, when my node wants to go looking for something, it has decided that freespeech.no-ip.org is a good and reliable place to ask. The opposite seems to be true as well, as I have a bunch of incoming connections from that node. Toad is working on multiplexing, which should address the number of connections required between nodes. I'd go look it up, but it's getting late :) -s _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support
