The problem isn't "why the client retries" but that the retries themselves are part of the load.
I'm just starting to read the BOINC sources, but from observation, I don't see the kind of back-off that a project might need if those retries exceed capacity. Mark Pottorff wrote: > In the first 10 minutes of being back up and running, I would say most > projects could respond to every attached client, so long as the protocol and > scoring system are sufficiantly simple. > > 10 minutes = 600 seconds, say 10 interactions per second? 6000 hosts. Which > for many tiny budget projects is all they will have. For a larger project > with 60,000 hosts, it is still reasonable to expect you would only have hits > from 10% of them in the first 10 minutes. So, you've still kept up with the > workload. ...and if not, that's why the client does retries. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
