On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:10:57AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
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> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:15:49AM +0100, Toad wrote:
> > Observe
> > http://127.0.0.1:7888/servlet/nodestatus/diagnostics/incomingHopsSinceReset/hour
> > 
> > Mine shows nothing over 1.94, many under 1.
> > 
> > Hence, pcaching is not working, presumably because there are too many old
> > nodes on the network. Hence, pcaching is not responsible for the current
> > problems! So upgrade already!
> 
> Well, we don't need to infer how many old nodes are on the network, 
> we can look at the node version histogram - which tells us that 
> people are actually keeping pretty up-to-date.

Hrmm. Well then another possible explanation is that very many nodes are
underloaded, and so the request won't get far before it reaches a node
that resets the datasource... load balancing interfering with
probabilistic caching... hrmm. I am reluctant to weaken the load
balancing, because it would seem a reasonable way to try to reduce the
network imbalance... the other possibility is to not (or not usually) 
reset hopsSinceReset on a datasource reset... which means that a node
can distinguish a reply from the original datasource from a reply from a
node that just happened to reset the datasource... which probably isn't
a good idea.
> 
> Ian.
> 
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