Re: [GNUnet-developers] useless crap??

[Christian Grothoff]

On Monday 29 April 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote:
> From: Christian Grothoff <address@hidden>
>
> > This is a tuneing issue and presumably only prevalent if the content
> > comes from the local host. CVS versions of GNUnet can behave in odd ways,
> > so if you want to avoid 'useless crap', you may want to stick to the
> > releases :-)
>
> Well, I started with the 0.3.3 release and all I got was a bunch of
> processes eating 100% of the cpu. :)

Hmm. I haven't seen that happen (except for some issue with 
gnunet-insert-mp3). Which processes? Some time CPU eating by gnunetd on 
startup (generation of the hostkey) is ok. 

> Also at this point I assumed you would like people testing your new
> code.

Sure. Sorry if I was rude, I'm just a bit stressed at the moment (exam time). 
And that bug has been proven particularily nasty :-)

> I just have a problem that I have NEVER seen a response to a query
> unless I inserted the data myself.

Well, the network is still fairly small (usually I see 2-4 hosts online at a 
time, ls -l ~/.gnunet/data/hosts, look at the timestamps). 

> What keys should I search for that are likely to be found?
> I get nothing from 'mp3'.

mp3 is a bad keyword because it would (once the system works) return far too 
many results. Thus gnunet-insert-mp3 will NOT automatically generate that 
keyword. 

In terms of development, we're currently more trying out to see on which 
platforms we compile (e.g. there are known issues with big-endian 
architectures). Also we need a better scheme for automatic keyword 
extraction from files because it is unrealistic that people will type
in lots of keywords manually for each file they make available. Once
that is coded, I would expect to see some content to become available. For 
now, it's more a toy-network for experiments with data that is inserted into 
local test-networks. 

There may also be performance issues (e.g. how does ext2 behave if
data/content contains 1 million 1k files? Use reiserfs? database?);
GNUnet is not really ready for the masses yet. 

Christian
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