I suggest FProxy display "The node is initializing... 42% done" until the node has enough entropy.
On 4/6/06, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> 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. > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060406/6454ca62/attachment.html>
