On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:49:05 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > Freenet 0.7.5 build 1329 is now out. It will be mandatory on Monday. > It may be somewhat disruptive, so please report any problems you > find. This build does what 1324 was supposed to do, but with various > bugfixes. Specifically, it lays the foundations for new load > management: > - Two-stage timeouts: When we are waiting for a peer to do something > and it takes too long, we give it some extra time to tell us that it > failed because the next node on the chain took too long. If it > doesn't, we know the node is responsible for the timeout, and we > treat this as a fatal timeout, because we can no longer be sure how > many of our requests are running on this peer, which is a big problem > for new load management. A fatal timeout results in a disconnection. > On darknet this is temporary. On opennet, it would be permanent i.e. > until we get the peer again from path folding; but this is turned off > for now so that we can get the code out without causing too much > disruption if I missed some important bugs that cause unnecessary > fatal timeouts. > - Load messages: New load management will rely on nodes knowing how > much capacity they are allowed to use on each of their peers. This > will allow us to only send requests when there is a reasonable chance > of them being accepted, and to queue requests until we can route them > to the best node for the key. This should improve routing accuracy > significantly, therefore improving data retention, as well as > improving throughput. > > Please upgrade! Thanks!
Input bandwidth went berserk, after about 2 hours of uptime. :(. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
