On Tuesday 08 January 2008 22:49, Victor Denisov wrote: > I've been trying Freenet for the last couple of days. It works more or > less as I've expected, but one thing really bothers me. I've got a > couple of files on my download queue, with several large files (about 50 > - 200 Mb), and some small files (about 150-200 Kb - JPEG pictures), > about 200 files total. > > I can retrieve most pictures on the queue through Fproxy, and they > usually took no more than 10-15 seconds to show up. However, those same > files sit in the queue for more than 5 days (the node was up almost > 24x7, save for reboots and just a couple of hours of outage), with > various degrees of progression (mostly, 50-70%). Some hadn't been > touched at all, it seems (they're completely gray, with italicized 0% > progress).
Possibly a bug - when you visit them in fproxy, the node should immediately pass them along to the waiting clients. > > Is that an expected behavior? How does the node choose what block of > what file to download next? Does it try local cache first? Could it be > that large files (with lots of blocks) choke small files? No, it should round-robin between them.. if it's tried them lots of times and not got anywhere, or if they are at a lower priority, they may not be attempted for ages. > > Regards, > Victor Denisov. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20080110/278befa5/attachment.pgp>
