[freenet-dev] Why Freenet is so SLOW! / Finding data

[Ed Tomlinson]

On December 7, 2007, Robert Hailey wrote:
> > One thing that may be happening that somewant offsets this problem  
> > could be
> > clustering of locations.  e.g. even though my nodes location changes  
> > often it could
> > be that it favours some subsets of the total location space.  It  
> > would be worthing
> > adding a metric to track how long a node spends in a given area of  
> > the location
> > space.
> 
> Hmm... that may be implementable as a running average of (location  
> over time). i.e. every fixed interval (hour? / 5-minute) average one  
> 'location' into the running average. Which amounts to a location- 
> shifting 'velocity' measurement, or 'average-location'.
> 

I was thinking more along the lines of a histogram like 0.5 used to use to show
specialization.

Ed