On Jan 4, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 18:32, Robert Hailey wrote: >> >> Apparently until this revision 16886, (so long as any one node does >> not timeout) a node will take as long as necessary to exhaust >> routable >> peers. Even long after the original requestor has given up on that >> node. > > Yes. Is this bad? Obviously there are limits - if it gets a post- > accepted > timeout on any one node it will finish the request. > > Generally I think this is probably a good thing - the data is > wanted, so why > not find it? It will be cached and will be transferred later. With > ULPRs it > will even be transferred when we complete, despite the timeout.
Interestingly (now that I have got the simulator running), this 'general timeout' appears even in simulations between nodes on the same machine. Unless I coded something wrong, perhaps there is an added delay or missing response somewhere which is not obvious? -- Robert Hailey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080104/bc088a97/attachment.html>
