Hello,
I'm running aMule 2.3.1, and I noticed that the Kad nodes increase periodically without any upper limit: it begins at ~700 on startup, it stays stable for an hour or so, and after that, it increases by +100 nodes. Then, it repeats endlessly this cycle of stability for 1 hour and then increase of +100 nodes. After a few days, it shows ~5500 nodes, and it is still increasing... I'm wondering:
- First of all... what does the "nodes" number exactly stand for?
- How many nodes are normal for Kademlia?
- Is this "endless" increase normal?
I'm wondering how Kad works... I tried to search the forum for some questions, but I only found some very old threads without a clear answer:
http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=13448.msg88699#msg88699 In this thread, they even suggested that someone could be trying to poison Kad tables! Also, I fear that this endless increase could take too many resources if there is no upper limit.
Could anyone help me understand the Kad behavior
?
Thanks in advance for your answers !