Would you possibly agree with this, "There is no known way to meaningfully evaluate the performance of freenet?"
> [Original Message] > From: Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: vinyl1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 3/9/2004 7:28:55 AM > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] freenet commitment settings > > > On 09-Mar-2004 vinyl1 wrote: > > OK, I have the latest build (5074), the latest seed nodes, the latest > > everything I could find as of today, 3/8/2004 > > > > On the Web interface, I can't load The Freedom Engine, Dolphin's Free Index, > > and Content of Evil. I can load the Freenet Help Index and YoYo. This is > > possibly due to unreachable, out-of-date nodes. The stuff that does load > > seems to work better than before. > > Basing your evaluation of your node's performance on what's appearing and/or > reachable via the main web interface is not a good idea. Most of the gateway > sites have been horribly unreliable for quite some time now (with the exception > of DFI). I really don't know why this is the case; I've had no trouble at all > inserting DFI daily. To ensure that the next DBR update is inserted in time, I > always start the update process (an automated, scheduled job) at least 1 1/2 > hours prior to the rollover time (12:00 am GMT). I'm wondering if other > gateway site maintainers are not allowing enough time in advance for their > inserts to complete on time. > > DFI's insert got a little screwed up yesterday, due to the fact that I was in > the process of running a portupgrade of my JDK under FreeBSD. Probably due to > the additional load on the system from running the build, FIW somehow ended up > inserting DFI one day further into the future than it was supposed to. I didn't > discover this and finally get the problem corrected until about 8:30 pm CST > (2:30 am GMT). > > I saw someone else here basing assumptions about their node's behavior on the > fact that they couldn't reach YoYo! Unfortunately, Yoyo! is one of the more > unreliable sites lately (no idea why). > > Anyway, the gist of the idea is this: don't assume that non-functioning gateway > sites mean your node is not working. > > -- > Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas" > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
