"Juiceman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Now that we have NIO, what about increasing default rtMaxNodes to allow more 
> accurate/greater specialization in routing requests?  
> 
> I think that with a higher number of nodes to route to, a node would be better able 
> to pick a *better* route that may be more specialized (aka closer to the key it is 
> looking for.)
> 
> An added benefit of this may be less tearing down of connections.  I envision every 
> node having almost permanent routes to (100+ ?) nodes throughout the routing table 
> hash keyspace with much finer resolution.

The problem with this is the problem in AI of memorization.  If
there's 1000 keys that are commonly requested, and a node has
rtMaxNodes=1000, then it can just memorize the "answers"=routes for
each key, and never have to do any of the kind of optimization or
adaptation that the network needs to adapt.

Nodes need to route suboptimally sometimes so that they can find out
about paths that are better than their data indicated.  That being
said, we can't go the other extreme and use only 2 nodes.  Our current
default of 100 is reasonable.

Thelema
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