[mnet-devel] good version being packaged!

[Bryce Wilcox-O'Hearn]

As far as I am concerned, v0.6.2.363-STABLE is going to be the BEST MNET EVER, 
and the final version on the v0.6.2 branch.

(Although actually this is up to Arno.  But I hope he will either agree or will 
make only small changes before the final v0.6.2.)

I'm making a source tarball, a linux binary package, and an OS X binary package.

Peerman is enabled by default.

I am very pleased with the behavior of Mnet under testing over the last few 
days.  I'm eager to see how it behaves with larger networks.  I suggest that we 
DOUBLE the size of the Mnet network over the next 24 hours or so.  That requires 
two or three people to run a node each.

In theory, Mnet should scale gracefully until the point that there are too many 
nodes on the network for your local machine to store every node's RSA public 
key.  The RSA public key plus associated bilateral reputation stuff probably 
adds up to between 1 KB and 4 KB of memory.  So if you have, say 1 GB of memory 
just for Mnet's peer relationships, this network should perform okay with 
256 thousand or 1 million nodes.

Of course in practice, Mnet v0.6.2 will not scale anywhere near that far.  But 
I don't know how far it will make it!

Also you could set up a private Mnet among your friends or on your own LAN or 
something and report back how it went.

Regards,

Zooko



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