[freenet-dev] PROPOSAL: Ultra-Lightweight Passive Requests

[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
>>>> Benefits:
>>>> - Significantly reduced load caused by polling.
>>>> - Much simpler than any reliable subscription scheme.
>>>> - Minimal API changes needed.
>>>> - Apps can continue their polling behaviour, they can in fact expand it
>>>> and e.g. poll outboxes, with minimal impact on the network.

Do we have any figures for how much load is currently caused by polling
for SSKs? Frost updates each board every 45 minutes by default - do
other apps poll more frequently?

Cheers,
Michael