Standardize the number of values retrieved from the DHT.

[quix0rs-apt-p2p.git] / apt_dht / apt_dht_conf.py

diff --git a/apt_dht/apt_dht_conf.py b/apt_dht/apt_dht_conf.py
index 3fad6259f43cb55fc5367d68d31b7936ea017a6a..06709c37d36caef7f2973bcfe36f039b656e5dbe 100644 (file)
--- a/apt_dht/apt_dht_conf.py
+++ b/apt_dht/apt_dht_conf.py
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ DHT_DEFAULTS = {
     # how many hosts to post to
     'STORE_REDUNDANCY': '3',
     
+    # How many values to attempt to retrieve from the DHT.
+    # Setting this to 0 will try and get all values (which could take a while if
+    # a lot of nodes have values). Setting it negative will try to get that
+    # number of results from only the closest STORE_REDUNDANCY nodes to the hash.
+    # The default is a large negative number so all values from the closest
+    # STORE_REDUNDANCY nodes will be retrieved.
+    'RETRIEVE_VALUES': '-10000',
+
     ###  ROUTING TABLE STUFF
     # how many times in a row a node can fail to respond before it's booted from the routing table
     'MAX_FAILURES': '3',