On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:24:14PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2006, at 13:50, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:18:35PM +0200, Magnus Eriksson wrote: > >>4: Do nothing. So what if it occasionally takes a long time to > >>start? > >>How much randomness is needed anyway? Is this a real problem, or > >>is Freenet only ever going to be slow if you're actively draining > >>/dev/random? > > > >People have reported it taking ages to start up - 5 minutes plus - and > >Ian regards this as a problem. > > This is undoubtedly a serious usability issue, people start Freenet, > but FProxy doesn't show up for ages, leading them to the not- > unreasonable conclusion that Freenet isn't working. The first time I > saw this myself that is the conclusion I came to.
Sorry, I will rephrase that. This is indeed a serious usability problem, and can be worked around, admittedly with considerable effort. > > I'm not aware of any software that takes 5 minutes to start up, and > there should be no reason that Freenet needs to. This a critical > usability flaw and must be rectified one way or another. > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060406/02bdca7f/attachment.pgp>
