[freenet-chat] save freenet - stop using frost

[Matthew Toseland]

I very much doubt that Frost is the cause of the problems which we see
on Freenet. It cannot in any case be stopped, but it only polls small
KSKs, and it only does that every 45 minutes or so. Incidentally it does
not directly slow down downloads; KSKs/SSKs are treated separately from
CHKs.

We cannot prohibit Frost; people will use it whether we want them to or
not. Freenet needs to be able to deal with it, but personally I see no
evidence that Frost is responsible for Freenet's problems. Feel free to
find some.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:26:32PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I know I'm not alone in feeling frustrated at seeing most of my peer
> nodes backed off most of the time.
> 
> I blame frost, especially with the high priority frost tends to use, and
> its relentless KSK-thrashing.
> 
> One or both of two things needs to happen:
> 
> 1) frost drops its priority to 5 or 6
> 
> 2) people stop using frost
> 
> Freenet is not ready for a messaging system such as frost, and won't be
> till 0.8 and the new publish/subscribe features. In the meantime,
> anonymous messaging IMHO is better done via I2P or Tor.
> 
> Your thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
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