On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:13:09 -0500 Nick Tarleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know. Perhaps I should clarify: it begins to download as soon as I run > start-freenet.sh, and keeps going for a while, even before I access > fproxy/run any clients. This is something of a problem, as I use dial-up. > I've heard of prefetching the start-page links; if this is it, can it be > turned off? I see no related option in freenet.conf. When you start Freenet, it immediately tries to connect to as many nodes as possible, from the pool of nodes that it knows about. If what you're seeing is a bandwidth spike that goes away after a couple of minutes, it's probably connections being opened. I imagine that handshaking with 50+ nodes could use up all of your bandwidth for awhile. It could certainly be something else, though. Check out the Environment page from the web interface, go to "Pooled Thread Consumers" and you can see what the threads are doing. (Caveat: by loading the main web interface page, you're initiating requests for the activelink images of the index pages. To avoid this, bookmark the Environment page and go straight there as soon as the node starts.) With the default settings, Freenet will pretty much saturate a dialup link when you're actively using it, and it will eat bandwidth even when you aren't using it. If you haven't done so already, you might want to tweak the input and output bytes values in the config file. Another suggestion is to make sure that the line transient=true is present in the config file, with no % in front of it. Transient nodes do not have any requests routed to them, which cuts down on bandwidth usage. As I understand it, there is an anonymity tradeoff here if someone is monitoring your requests and knows that your node is transient (your node isn't routing other peoples' requests, so all requests leaving your node are your own). -s _______________________________________________ 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]
