-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Christian Wettergren <cwe@Csli.Stanford.EDU> writes:
If the client is unable to retrieve a block from the server, I suggest it just picks a random block and starts working on it. I may very well not be allocated to someone else, and then the client was able to do something good in the meantime even though it didn't get a proper key alloc.
Not only that, but the client ought to allocate some keyspace before it needs it, as I think one other cpunk suggested. For instance, if it has four segments allocated and it's done three of them, it should fork a process to begin requesting four more segments *while* it is scanning the last segment, rather than waiting until after it is done and leaving the machine idle until it can alloc more keys. David R. Conrad, ab411@detroit.freenet.org, http://www.grfn.org/~conrad Finger conrad@grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 Jerry Garcia, August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995. Requiescat in pace. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCUAwUBMEHCiREcrOJethBVAQHqfwP4xfVbdkyR19WA5k4oC0GjW80s3nNrLkXZ mYspBE8e01waJ+6NYkeyvE4lPzW4OwkKTAtZV64GWovpjsyYh4bb7/mkpkdOktAZ J9DkHXouQ5M23FImbIcfkVUqQdR5tmSdHQqOpUNYPVqT3JZR6IC9vzwYoqcnQWyY WIIGs8DTUA== =9Y8g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David R. Conrad, ab411@detroit.freenet.org, http://www.grfn.org/~conrad Finger conrad@grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 Jerry Garcia, August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995. Requiescat in pace.