On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:38:04PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > > This is the biggest piece of alchemy in my changes. Its also something > > > > that has a very good effect - without this nodes with lots of references > > > > are dropped as quickly as nodes with one or two. Think NG routing will > > > > benifit from something very much like this. > > > > > > NGrouting will, in a sense, figure this out for itself - hopefully we > > > won't need to use alchemy to force it to happen. > > > > No it won't. If NGrouting favours open connections, and as a consequence > > a few connections stay open forever and everything else is ignored, we > > will get *lousy* load handling over the network as a whole. Thus we MUST > > NOT implement NGrouting before NIO. > > NGRouting will only favor open connections over closed connections if > the price of going with a sub-optimal open connection reference is lower > than that of going with the optimal non-open connection reference, and > if this is the case, then NGRouting is perfectly correct in its > decision. If the open-connection node gets overloaded then it will > no-longer make sense to route via that node, and NGrouting will route > elsewhere. You can't argue with simple market economics, and that is > what NGrouting is.
I'm not going to even try to argue with this. I'm just going to ignore you. > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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