From: ab411@detroit.freenet.org (David R. Conrad)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 07:11:03 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Pre-allocating key segments
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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.

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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.