Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-23 Thread tkaitchuck
There a lot of other ideas on how to do this but if you or anyone else thinks theirs is better, please explain what advantages this could have over my proposal. If you don't like to do a split LIFO/FIFO that's fine. But the actually, I think it is a very impressive design, with well

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-21 Thread Toad
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:02:32AM -0500, Ken Corson wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:41 am, Edward J. Huff wrote: Well, what I want to do is to allow the node to be in control of the backoff time, as follows: Can anyone explain how this protocol is vulnerable to attack? Tom

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-21 Thread Ian Clarke
Toad wrote: 1000 points to Tom for stating this so well. But, only God has the global perspective to have an accurate God's eye view of each node's Does God have an XML-RPC API? Ian. ___ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-20 Thread Tom Kaitchuck
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:41 am, Edward J. Huff wrote: Well, what I want to do is to allow the node to be in control of the backoff time, as follows: When a fluctuation of the success rate results in excess trailers, the node estimates how long they will take to transmit. Then it

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-20 Thread Ken Corson
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:41 am, Edward J. Huff wrote: Well, what I want to do is to allow the node to be in control of the backoff time, as follows: Can anyone explain how this protocol is vulnerable to attack? Tom Kaitchuck wrote: (Sometimes it's worth while to try a node even if it is

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-18 Thread Edward J. Huff
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:18, Martin Stone Davis wrote: Edward J. Huff wrote: But, to return to the original subject..., there is an argument for closing connections instead of QR-ing when load is high. If a node closes connections, it continues to accept requests from the connections it

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-18 Thread Edward J. Huff
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:18, Martin Stone Davis wrote: Edward J. Huff wrote: But, to return to the original subject..., there is an argument for closing connections instead of QR-ing when load is high. If a node closes connections, it continues to accept requests from the connections it

[freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Stone Davis
Edward J. Huff wrote: Well, what I want to do is to allow the node to be in control of the backoff time, as follows: When a fluctuation of the success rate results in excess trailers, the node estimates how long they will take to transmit. Then it informs all of its connected peers that it is

Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Additional ways to reduce load aside from QR.

2003-11-18 Thread Edward J. Huff
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:44, Martin Stone Davis wrote: Edward J. Huff wrote: Well, what I want to do is to allow the node to be in control of the backoff time, as follows: [...] When the node estimates that it can safely accept queries, it will send a second message to all connected