On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:44:26 +0000, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at lshift.net>  
wrote:
  Clicking on the latest Tric-P2P package (Tric-P2P-CdG.12.mcz)
> paused the whole image for about a minute before resulting in an error,  
> "sorry, couldn't find anything on the p2p net" (walkback pasted below).
>
Don't past walkbacks, fix them ;). Actually, I'm just mimicking MC's  
regular behavior here by throwing walkbacks instead of nice error dialogs.  
Bugger Avi about this, please ;) (or not, it's a developer tool, after all)

> Perhaps the timeout is too short? (Alternatively, from a user-feedback  
> POV, it's already too long :-) ) Looking at the value of "hits" in  
> "readStreamForFileNamed:do:", there are two separate entries.
>
A problem right now is that the network is too unreliable because of its  
size. That makes me a bit wary of suggesting alternative ways to tackle  
this at this point in time.

Ramble:
- For the user it would be better to send the retrieval request to all  
hits in parallel; for the network that wouldn't be as nice of course;
- So maybe a two-stage protocol? Ask for a file handle, retrieve from the  
first host that responds?

Of course, the reason that I'm putting out this stuff is that I'd like to  
have some input on options like these - there are a lot of  
time/space/bandwidth tradeoffs to be made in p2p land...