Re: [Help-gnunet] INDIRECTION_TABLE_SIZE and download speed

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Saturday 07 September 2002 02:40 am, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:04:55PM -0500, Christian Grothoff spake thusly:
> > I would add here that when you start the download, you're typically much
> > more popular than when you finish it -- since downloading will decrease
> > your popularity. And since the last blocks were the ones that were hard
> > to get
>
> But with only approximately 20 nearly idle nodes everyone will always be
> poor but all of the nodes will have free cycles so this shouldn't really
> be a factor, right?

Looking at the trust rankings I've seen so far, no, not all nodes are poor. 
And that there are times where GNUnet is 'busy' is certainly also true since 
if just one node (out of 20) downloads a large file, some low-bandwidth nodes 
may become 'busy'. So no, I believe that the economics will even apply with 
20 nodes, though bugs & other problems are also likely to contribute more to 
the overall performance.

Christian
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