On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:48:19AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > Ok, are you comfortable with the algorithm I proposed for dealing with > > > connection failures and such-like? > > > > What algorithm? > > To the RTE estimate we add Pf * T where Pf is the probability of a > connection failure for that node, and T is the average time it takes for > a connection to fail.
But then we are saying that success in time T is no better than failure
in time T. What we want is
E = P(success) * E_time(success) +
P(failure) * (E_time(failure) + E_time(full request))
Where E_time(full request) is an estimated time based on the overall
node performance.
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> Ian.
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