On Wednesday 09 August 2006 10:49, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Because we have load propagation, it is entirely legitimate to > > send requests ANYWAY, and let upstream nodes deal with the slowness - > > I'm inclined to agree with this argument, but I'm not sure it follows > that we should send fewer requests to slow nodes. This will necessarily > lead to fast nodes getting a larger proportion of requests, even if they > don't get a larger absolute number of requests. Maybe that's acceptable, > but I think we should distinguish between two questions: > 1) should we rely on senders to slow down instead of backing off? > 2) should we send a smaller proportion of requests to slow nodes?
This is ineffect what the code I wrote in back in May does. It used a know alg to do slow down the rate of requests to node rejecting requests. Ed
