Re: Reducing the peer count (2 pull requests)

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:59:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Matthew Toseland writes:

> On 13/06/16 17:09, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> - The new 10KiB/s minimum bandwidth is too high for some users.
>> - With 1474 few users are able to keep more than 70 connections.¹
> ...
>> ¹: See https://asksteved.com/stats/plot_peer_count.png — this used to
>>    have a peak around 100 before 1474, and people report that their
>>    nodes cannot keep their connections anymore.
>>
> I thought this occurred suddenly in 1474? That suggests something fishy
> is going on, the long term issues you try to address here may not be
> relevant?

The long term issue is that even nodes with 10KiB/s had problems keeping
10 connections. I saw that more strongly with 5KiB/s, but 10KiB/s still
seems too low for 10 connections.

Also the link length distribution before the link length fix showed that
4 short-distance connections might suffice to have working routing, so
we could include an additional group of people (down to 25 GiB/month
volume).

> One possible theory is that the peer count patcher suddenly changed from
> accepting probe requests to ignoring them.

Maybe some folks from frost can comment.

> This would explain both the
> reduction in average peer counts and the odd probe statistics. Is there
> any way we can eliminate this hypothesis, for example by asking people
> using it?

Another possible theory is that the Windows Installer was broken, which
removed the influx of people who deinstall Freenet again as soon as they
looked at it. That would explain why the stats started to drop when we
released the installer, but not when we deployed the update over
Freenet.

Best wishes,
Arne
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