[Tech] Location churn: empirical data

[Matthew Toseland]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:46, Jano wrote:
> Daniel Cheng wrote:
> 
> > 2008/5/14 Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com>:
> >> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >>
> >>> Below are links to my node's location logs. A lot of the location churn 
is
> >>> within roughly a slice of 10% of the keyspace, and the central signal is
> >>> reasonably clean... but this degree of variation is going to cause 
problems
> >>> with routing and especially data retention IMHO (on a network of several
> >>> thousand nodes, with *at least* 1000 nodes online at a time). There were 
a
> >>> whole bunch of resets during the week 19 April to 26 April, and on the
> >>> 24th, RC2 was released; on May 8th, 0.7.0 was released. These may 
explain
> >>> some but not all of the long jumps...
> >>>
> >>> http://amphibian.dyndns.org/location.log.txt
> >>> http://amphibian.dyndns.org/locations.png
> >>
> >> See mine attached. This node has not been steadly 24/7 up as of late, 
which
> >> can be more typical. It bounces a bit...
> >>
> > 
> > How many opennet connection do you have?
> 
> This node is pure opennet. So 20, I think.

Ok, in that case each time there is long downtime it will have to reseed... 
even so, seeding is directional... but your new nodes won't be the same as 
your old nodes, so it may partly explain it.
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