Re: [Help-gnunet] A couple problems with gnunet 0.4.2 - Also compile problems in 0.4.3

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Friday 02 August 2002 10:34 am, Igor Wronsky wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2002, Josh Grebe wrote:
> > #3QUERY    received:  113621090  send:  215408493
> > #CONTENT   received:     14746  send:     24878
> > #NOISE     received:   2740252k send:   1750544k
> > #octets    received:    443650k send:    536897k
> > #QUERY     received:    324798  send:         0
> > #CONTENT   received:         0  send:      2017
> > I am getting some search results, not having a lot of luck trying to
> > download files though.
>
> Some points are in order so that you won't feel ignored. ;) First,
> those are not small figures. 324798 queries signifies you tried
> to download something pretty big, or you were pretty persistent
> with smaller stuff. Though I haven't noticed an upper limit on
> filesize in gnunets capability of transferring files, I wouldn't
> personally attempt download anything over 10 megs at this point.

The technical limit is currently 2^31 (or 32) bytes, which imo is sufficient 
for anything that will be reasonable in a very long time. :-)

> Mainly, the large content I've been able to found is not interesting
> enough to download at the speeds my node can achieve. Note that
> the competitors (the F-word, some people don't like it mentioned
> here...) on the anonymous front have had problems with big
> stuff as well. Compared to that mess, gnunet has been coming
> up quite nicely, in my opinion.

Well, we can mention Freenet (www.freenetproject.org) here, but I'd hate to 
see flamewars or rants. 

> Second, even if you didn't get files satisfactorily, your node
> was not useless by any means: the number of queries and content
> received/sent tells that your node has delivered stuff
> around quite nicely.
>
> Only thing that seems weird to me is that your #NOISE
> is higher than #octets. I've never seen that personally. It
> might signify a problem. Do you have any idea (e.g. from
> the logs, or an udp packet monitor) where thats coming from?

An overflow. 32 bit ints are used in the statistics module. We may want to 
switch to "long long". 

Christian
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