[mnet-devel] good version being packaged!

[Arno Waschk]

i think 0.6.2 should remain open for really urgent bugfixes in case they 
might occur. (Of course we are convinced this is Absolutely Impossible 
(tm) ).
The rest might go on an 0.6.3 or where ever.... Arno

On 18 Feb 2004 02:59:29 -0500, Bryce Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com> 
wrote:

>
> 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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