On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:32:06PM -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > > > > >From: > >Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> > >Date: > >Sat, 26 Oct 2002 22:32:34 +0100 > > > > > >On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:28:04PM -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > > > > >>>From: > >>>Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> > >>>Date: > >>>Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:21:25 +0100 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>If a request comes in with an HTL below some dynamic threshold > >>>>based on the average HTLs of the other queries in the queue, then > >>>>it is considered desperate and is handled. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>No, we didn't do exactly that, preferring low HTLs is silly it > >>> > >>> > >>>encourages bad behaviour. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>When you have a minute (I realize that you are busy these days) could > >>you elabourate on how encouraging low HTL requests in the network > >>is silly. I would believe that the opposite is true and am curious what > >>reasons you have to think the way you do. We already encourage lower > >>HTLs by using the maxHTL setting in the configuration. > >> > >> > >Because we do not want nodes to use low HTL requests to lots of nodes > >rather than high HTL requests to one (or a few) nodes. > > > > Fish is right about inserts but I wasn't talking about inserts here. > In my mind, inserts should never be rejected. Otherwise you will > never know how many nodes your insert made it to. I don't know > how the current code handles it. > > OK ... I can see how this scheme would make 5x5htl requests > faster to do then 1x25htl request. If you truly want to favour long > requests over short ones then reverse the HTL priority. You can > just as easily favour high incoming HTLs in the connection queue > this way as low ones. High HTLs eventually become low HTLs. We cannot preferentially answer some requests under load depending on their HTL. > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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