Re: Re: freenet performance

thank you for the detailed explanations, Alex

>>>>>>> However the current 0.5 works pretty well IME.
>>>>>> that's great news.
>>>>>> how is performance compared to for example aMule or eMule ?
>>>>> Freenet is slow (my experience), is nice for text-based stuff
>>>>> (Freesites) and a few images. I have no experience retriving files
>>>>> with more than 5MB of size.
>>>> My experience has been fairly good. Using Frost, I'd say I've 
>>>> retrieved  > 90% of the large files I've tried. And the speed is 
>>>> usually quite good, again IME. Specially, for people used to wait in 
on an average DSL, you get 1-2 CDs per day on ed2k.
how fast do you get a CD worth of data, on average, using freenet ?
(my main focus currently are educational videos.)

>>>> queues in eMule it shouldn't be a new pain. The Frost progress bar 
>>>> is mesmerizing to me...
>>> Sorry, where it says Frost it should say Fuqid.
using aMule you have to follow certain rules to get good performance.
like not too many requests, good servers, etc.
is this similar with freenet, a constant fiddling with options :-) ?

>> so what would be your recipe for installing such a freenet ?
>> i am planning to repost a step by step instruction if you don't mind.
> I don't think I'm an authoritative source of information about this. All 
> I did is:
> 
> 1. Install latest stable freenet.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download

> 2. Have it running all day if possible.
after how many days did you start to have good traffic ?

> 3. Install fuqid for convenience (i.e you can download without it 
> anyways, it just simplifies retries and such). I think it also allow 
> insertions, but I have never used it for that.
http://freenethelp.org/html/Fuqid.html
looks nice :-)

> 4. You may want to use FIW for your site insertions.
http://www.google.ch/search?q=freenet+FIW

>>>> I guess the real pain is in inserting large files. I used to insert 
>>>> some text-only small sites and the time required wasn't negligible.
>>>> In truth and IMO, a popular release site a-la somethingreactor is 
>>>> something bound to happen sooner or later, here or over I2P or 
>>>> something else.
>> that would be a server announcing new inserts ?
> If I had to construct such a portal, I would have an edition site 
> publishing new links. People could submit these with NIMs (a freenet 
> basic messaging system), I suppose. This obviously requires some manual 
> work or else coding.
> A drawback is that you can't have search capabilities within freenet, so 
> I'd publish in that site periodically a full database of 
> links/descriptions, and maybe bundle an open source search tool or 
> something. If this database were to grown too big some alternative could 
> be studied, like sharing link references in some non-anonymous, 
> searchable P2P network.
> I think I'm not saying anything new here. I guess this has no appeal to 
> current communities because there's no way to collect info about users 
> to shell to 3rd parties, or to place tracked ads unless you have a part 
> of the site pointing to externals, so losing part of the anonymity. Also 
> forget about scripting of any kind. It should be plain HTML.
> Another thing is that maybe the current freenet is not prepared to 
> support the huge amounts of data that would have to be inserted. Some 
> statistics about the usual datastore sizes could be useful here.
yes.
how big is your store ?

and how do you search for files in freenet ?

kind regards     philippe

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