On Friday 08 February 2008 16:08, Robert Hailey wrote:
> 
> I think that this (or more specifically r17687) is a little confused.
> 
> You see, the consecutive missing reports is reset to zero every time  
> that we receive a new packet; it is effectively the number of timeouts  
> we can incur before we give up (and the timeout is 30 seconds). So...  
> as long as the transmitter is transmitting, it is irrelevant; but  
> after r17687, the receiver will hang around for four minutes waiting  
> for packets.
> 
> I suggest that the bug you are chasing is more related to the  
> transmitter (and possibly crazy-slow nodes/high ping time); as the  
> problem is surely way too many concurrent transfers 

IMHO not possible because of output bandwidth liability limiting.

> and not lack of   
> timeout grace. Possibly (1) high-pingtime/throttling problem, (2) ULPR  
> transfers somehow not being accounted for, etc. See the error  
> statement on BlockTransmitter(~#149), which could be tightened up  
> (right now at two minutes), or simply made to abort the transfer:

The real problem is likely to be a bug in the transport layer.

I suggest you revert my change.
> 
>       Logger.error(this, "per-packet congestion control delay: "+(end-now));

Do you see this often?
> 
> The change may be acceptably benign, but I don't think that it is  
> beneficial; it either keep threads hanging around or just let crazy- 
> slow transfers pile up.
> 
> --
> Robert Hailey
> 
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 5:35 PM, toad at freenetproject.org wrote:
> 
> > Author: toad
> > Date: 2008-02-07 23:35:40 +0000 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008)
> > New Revision: 17688
> >
> > Modified:
> >   trunk/freenet/src/freenet/io/xfer/BlockReceiver.java
> > Log:
> > explain a bit in comments
> >
> > Modified: trunk/freenet/src/freenet/io/xfer/BlockReceiver.java
> > ===================================================================
> > --- trunk/freenet/src/freenet/io/xfer/BlockReceiver.java    2008-02-07  
> > 23:32:33 UTC (rev 17687)
> > +++ trunk/freenet/src/freenet/io/xfer/BlockReceiver.java    2008-02-07  
> > 23:35:40 UTC (rev 17688)
> > @@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
> >     public static final int RECEIPT_TIMEOUT = 30000;
> >     // TODO: This should be proportional to the calculated round-trip- 
> > time, not a constant
> >     public static final int MAX_ROUND_TRIP_TIME = RECEIPT_TIMEOUT;
> > +   /*
> > +    * FIXME: Is this a good idea?
> > +    * RECEIPT_TIMEOUT must be less than 60 seconds because  
> > BlockTransmitter times out after not
> > +    * hearing from us in 60 seconds. I increased  
> > MAX_CONSECUTIVE_PACKET_REPORTS to 8 to avoid
> > +    * some timeouts, and on the theory that even though the request  
> > handler will have already
> > +    * timed out, we can still offer it after we've got the data  
> > completely.
> > +    */
> >     public static final int MAX_CONSECUTIVE_MISSING_PACKET_REPORTS = 8;
> >     public static final int MAX_SEND_INTERVAL = 500;
> >     public static final int CLEANUP_TIMEOUT = 5000;
> 
> 
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