[GNUnet-developers] Re: Looking good.

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Monday 12 August 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote:
> Trying to download a random test file from gnunet
> now resulted as
>
> real  2m19.854s
> user  0m0.110s
> sys   0m0.030s
>
> which is an enormous gain in the previous 14+ minutes. ;)

Told you that I fixed a big bad bug :-)

> That was a file of yesterdays date though. I hope it
> wasn't already locally available entirely by greedy
> leechers of random content.

Nah, the speedup is real :-)

> ps. perhaps a strange behaviour is that the last few
> blocks seem always to take really long compared
> to all the previous blocks. I've seen this behaviour
> downloading almost any file. I assume this is some
> anonymity preserving mechanism? But why it only
> affects the last ones (I admit, I haven't been thinking
> about this - just observed)? Or are the "last ones"
> actually some blocks that didn't come when asked
> for the first time?

Both. These are often blocks that did not go through when they were tried the 
first time. But also, there is less traffic when these blocks are requested, 
thus the delays that nodes introduce are longer. The combination of these two 
effects makes the speed go down at the end.

Christian
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