Re: [Mldonkey-users] Credits system and rare files

[Alois]

Pierre Etchemaite wrote:

> > So the upload of already downloaded files should be excluded from the 
> > credit system.
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> Interesting. But I think that requires an upload queue, because you don't
> know what file will be asked for when you allocate the upload slot.
I think that's why I think about coding a real queue. And if I can 
really code it, then there has to be done a lot of testing about the 
effects on the network before putting it in any stable version.

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> > Emule people shouldn't get too many credits because it seems that 
> > they can still get enough upload slots even without credits.
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> By how much will you decrease the credits they get ?
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I don't know. I think about 20-30% should do it. But I don't really know 
Emule, I only saw my client_stats. Has anybody an idea what value would 
be good?

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> > P.S.: Is ocaml good at handling dynamic arrays? If it is, I will 
> > learn Ocaml and try programming a real upload queue...
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> This is not a basic abstract type of ocaml, but the intmap module 
> included
> in mldonkey may provide the features you want.
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I will look at it, but don't expect any results too soon...