On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:54:45AM +0100, Someone wrote:
> ~From your posts I guess you haven't been running a stable node for some 
> time,
> then installed a new one and tried to insert your flog the same day. Then it
> doesn't suprise me that it took quite some time. Let your node run a week 
> with
> frost (to train it) and you will see a great improvement, shure a week is a 
> long
> time, but if you take in mind that it has to learn a whole network and find 
> some
> good routes/nodes it's not that much. Since build 5099 I see specialization 
> on
> my node and insert speed is very good. I currently run 4 freesites, the 
> smallest
> about 100kB, the biggest nearly 30MB. The smallest is usually inserted 
> within
> 10 Minutes. The biggest takes between 4 to 6 hours, this isn't too long for 
> the
> amount of bandwith my node is allowed to use.

This is IMHO a major problem for the project at present: the learning
time. I don't think that this will be really solved short of fixed size
small chunks. But we have some way to go before we can do that; I don't
think we should do it before 0.6.
> 
> | And as for never bringing any alternatives...yeah, right. I remember 
> clearly
> | I made a whole list of suggestions and alternatives for improving the
> | end-user experience. Seems that memory is very selective. Why, only a few
> | days ago, I pointed to an error in the uninstaller. But hey, feel free to
> | ignore all that, and say I whine (not without reason in any case) about 
> the
> | fact that freenet still sucks for the most part, mostly because of bad
> | directions that have been taken. Didn't I suggest to go for UDP and small
> | chunks, and leave the NGR (that, after all this time, still hasn't 
> actually
> | proved it worked) if the simulations don't clearly show a benefit? Yes, I
> | did. But that, I suppose, is rapidly forgotten, even it's exactly the
> | alternatives that you claim I never gave. It's easier to say I 'just 
> whine',
> | so you can regard me as a troll, instead of contemplating if I don't have
> | valid points.
> 
> Pointing out errors and making valid suggestions is a different thing. As 
> for
> going for UDP, this actually would have made it worse. I know you suggested
> it to push holes through NAT routers, but this doesn't work on most routers
> here. And this for a very simple reason, almost all (yes even the low end
> cheap trash ones) routers you can get here have full SPI. So it isn't 
> possible
> to push a hole into their NAT, what's even worse is that the cheaper ones
> have SPI, but only allow to open or redirect TCP ports, not UPD ports. So 
> going
> to UDP would have ruled out users with one of these routers, even if they 
> knew
> how to open/forward the listen port. The only thing that might help with 
> this
> is to support UPNP. But it wouldn't change much, because ppl always get told
> that UPNP is a security risk, and they tend to believe it and disable it.

There are a lot of different ways to support hole-punching through
firewalls. Simultaneous connect is one option, UP&P is another, UDP is a
third. Some of these will eventually be implemented, but are not a
priority at the moment.
> 
> As for small chunks, IIRC it was suggested by Toad not by you. You only 
> agreed
> that it might be usefull, just like I did.
> 
> And I also did run a node pre NGR, and I saw a great improvement when 
> switching
> it over to NGR last year.

Really? Interesting...
> 
> | In neither case it validates deleting my account, so that I now would have
> | to change all references and links to it into new ones, if people want to
> | contact me via the site or the wiki I run. Oh, yes, but that's all not a
> | 'valid contribution', that's right.
> 
> Oh, how bad. You have to edit some lines of HTML or change some entrys in a 
> DB,
> this will be the end of the world. :-P
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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