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On 01/16/2011 08:33 AM, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:00:08 +0300, Volodya wrote:
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>>> (Off topic hand waving, how hard is it, honestly, to have a counter
>>> on each incoming packet, and to only accept inputBandwidthLimit per
>>> second? (And perhaps to add clever debugging messages, for now, if
>>> the node is ever seen significantly exceeding this limit?))
>>
>> How do you count the bandwidth?
>>
>> Packets are discrete while bandwidth is continuous.
>>
>> Let's say that you have a bandwidth limit of 5 KiB per second; now
>> imagine that a packet comes in that is 42 kilobits, if you download
>> that packet in less than a second, you have gone over your limit. But
>> you cannot slow down half way through a packet.
>>
>> You have said that you do not think that Freenet should average
>> things out, but that is the only way to move from discrete to
>> continuous math while preserving any sense of sanity.
>
> True. Are Freenet's packets that big? (Smaller packet sizes would be
> one solution for better bandwidth management.) I guess the discrete
> spikes aren't really a problem though, but rather those massive and
> continuous flows that swamp my connection -- as if the packet counter
> suddenly decided to stop working altogether, or something.
I have just given an example, it had little to do with Freenet packet size.
Still what i was pointing towards is that you need to average things out over
some period of time. Perhaps the problem is in something different, but it could
be that it selects some time period that is too large or too small.
- Volodya
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