Re: [Help-gnunet] (Not-so-)Serious problem with insert

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Wednesday 04 September 2002 04:33 pm, you wrote:
> I see.  It becomes linear sometime after the 30M point (on my system) but
> this still means it is going to "level out" at more than 5 minutes per 10M
> (on my system)  Which means that gnunet-insert -f Star\ Wars\ Episode\
> II.avi will take,...well more than 5 minutes anyway.
> Likewise gnunet-insert -f RedHat.iso.
> And all this time my 7200rpm disk is whacking away like a giz-monkey on
> speed. Is there any way use less disk access and more processor?
> Maybe there could be a setting for hashyness (TM) (you have to suck on your
> thistle whistle to see him...) to trade off security for useability?

Well, a trivial solution would be to buy memory (and eventually hack GNUnet to 
use it, currently the code tries to minimize memory usage). If you have 512 
MB of memory, you can pretty much cache the entire index (~300 MB by default) 
in memory and thus not pay any big penalty for the random access. 

I do not see any good way to use more CPU instead.

Christian
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