On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:47:35AM +0100, Shu Yan Chan wrote:
> I am not sure whether the results presented are inline with what one would
> have expected from the Freenet's principals and routing mechanism. However,
> I was quite shocked while I was doing the simulations. Basically, I found
> that Freenet would only be able to utilise it's storage capacity at around
> 20%, e.g. if all users have altogether shared 100GB of disk space to
> Freenet, then there could only be around 20GB of documents stored in the
> Freenet.
Cool, very interesting work, I look forward to reading your paper in
more depth. I don't find the 20% figure particularly shocking, Freenet
doesn't try to be conservative with disk space, adopting the rationale
that network bandwidth is a scarcer commodity than hard disk space.
The proposed mechanisms to reduce the amount of "edge" caching (ie.
caching closer to the requester) should improve this situation.
Ian.
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