On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:15:50PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
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> What's the health of Freenet as a whole right now?  

I'm not sure. It depends on various factors. For example, which branch
you are running.

> I'm getting lots of
> pages taking forever to load (or never loading),

On stable? How many live connections? Do you get RNFs? DNFs?

> and I think it's still
> using 100% CPU on my 200 mhz router on 768k (up and down) DSL, even
> though the browser is on another machine...

:(

How much RAM does it have? We have had reports of reasonable performance
on that class of hardware. OTOH, it's not a big priority at the moment.
"First make it work. Then make it work fast.". Most machines running
Freenet are probably 5 times faster than the above hardware...
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> I was planning to make a permanent node, but I don't run it much
> anymore, because my brother games (so he needs high bandwidth and low
> latency), and Freenet is still the most costly service I run on that
> thing (in terms of CPU, bandwidth, etc.)

I don't think Freenet's bandwidth limiting is unobtrusive enough for
gaming. Having said that, a gamer will tell you that ANYTHING else
running on the connection will increase his ping. Even if it doesn't! :)
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> I know it's been mentioned before, but I'll state for the record that I
> think Java was a bad choice.  Rather than start a new flame war, I'd
> like to go read up on why it was chosen (any archives I should look at?).

Ian liked it. Ian was the original coder. Java is a reasonable
OO-procedural language which has a number of eccentricities. Most of
those will be rectified when GCJ works. If we had used C++, we'd have
spent a year arguing over whether to include a garbage collector. If 
we had used Ocaml, we'd have had even fewer coders than we have now. 
Etc etc.
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> For the record, I have never, ever seen a java program load quickly, run
> even tolerably fast for anything beyond the most basic things, and I've
> never seen an open source implementation of Java work firsthand.  I
> don't like the syntax, but that's a personal issue -- I'd love to be
> proven wrong on this.

I've seen all of the above. Get hold of a copy of Eclipse compiled under
GCJ sometime...
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Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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