On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:10:46PM -0500, Matthew Welland wrote:
> If someone does model this I think it would be interesting to try "random" 
> caching. What happens if say 10% of traffic passing through a node is 
> randomly selected for caching. 

That is what I mean when I say "probabilistic" caching - my suggestion was 
to increase the probabilty closer to the source of the information.

> I suspect that the level of redundacy is 
> *too* high in freenet causing stuff to be pushed out of the store quickly.

That is certainly the danger, but it hasn't really been tested with 
simulations yet.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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