Happy Gnutella high Labour Day weekend

[stief]

Yes!

more than 1/2 million active users and 100,000 can accept incoming!

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/netsize.shtml

Sure beats Jan 2003!

Keep on coding and sharing--thanks to all who give of their labours.

happy Labour Day (or whatever you call it in your locale)

[trap_jaw4]

That's just the LimeWire crawler, the real network size must have been somewhere in the 700k-800k range.

[stief]

Hi Trap_jaw--more questions for you as usual

40% larger? Is there a factor I could reliably apply to the LW crawler stats to get at the real size?

Is there a better public link that shows daily gnutella netsize? I know there are other crawlers (yours, Aghtorr's, and Bearshare most likely), but they seem private.

Does your crawler show the same proportions as the vendor stats, or do those look skewed to you?

cheers

[stief]

Well well well . . . hit 600,000 users this weekend + 40% TCF (trap_jaw correction factor). Another 18 month high

Maybe the influence of the new Morpheus releases

[et voilà]

Héhéhé, great! From 300 000 in june to 600 000 (400 000 LWs) simultaneous users in september... And bearshare hit the 220 000 users alone today. It is good. The number of Morpheus nodes did not increased in a noticeable way (looking at the crawler stats and at the download.com weekly downloads. Those two factors might have decreased in fact, if I remember the stats from june correctly).

[trap_jaw4]

Originally posted by stief
40% larger? Is there a factor I could reliably apply to the LW crawler stats to get at the real size?

No, it's just that LimeWire's UDP crawler (offline atm) counts more hosts than the official crawler and it just counts LimeWire ultrapeers and connected hosts. If you add the numbers from BearShare's crawler you will end up with some 800,000 - 900,000 hosts in total.

Is there a better public link that shows daily gnutella netsize? I know there are other crawlers (yours, Aghtorr's, and Bearshare most likely), but they seem private.

Not really.

Does your crawler show the same proportions as the vendor stats, or do those look skewed to you?

I don't have the bandwidth to do complete crawls of the network, but the proportions should more or less right. There are mostly LimeWire and BearShare hosts on the network with LimeWire currently being the most popular Gnutella client.

[trap_jaw4]

Originally posted by et voilà
Héhéhé, great! From 300 000 in june to 600 000 (400 000 LWs) simultaneous users in september...

There are really some 600,000 LWs online on sunday afternoons.

At least according to Zlatin's UDP crawler (which is offline while I'm posting this).
http://www.limewire.org/udpresults.html

[stief]

looks like the Gnutella markets responded favourably to the election results

Any bets on when it will hit 1E+06?

(still--are the Ultrapeers going to be able to keep up?? I don't see a corresponding rise in the number of host accepting incoming connections)

[et voilà]

(still--are the Ultrapeers going to be able to keep up?? I don't see a corresponding rise in the number of host accepting incoming connections)

I guess it's because UDP results aren't separated in hosts accepting incomings and those who can't. The number of hosts rose because of UDP crawler, but the TCP one seems to be at its limits (ie it can't crawl more hosts per 50 minutes) so incomings hosts are stable/regressing on the LW graphs.

Ciao