Maybe we should keep an pQR estimator in the routingtable?! We don't
have to use it for anything but it would be interesting to be able to
display graph.

/N

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Corson
> Sent: den 4 november 2003 05:25
> To: Discussion of development issues
> Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Interesting statistics and anecdotes
> 
> 
> Somebody wrote:
> >This strongly suggests that routing is not doing terribly great. The 
> >suspicion is that there is some form of network 
> fragmentation going on. 
> >Ian refuses to admit the possibility of network 
> fragmentation, so I am 
> >wondering how to produce extraordinary evidence to support my 
> >extraordinary claim :).
> 
> so Ken Corson wrote:
> >Toad- just count the number of rejections experienced by a single 
> >request as it is handled by Node. When you see numbers around 15-20 
> >retries (out of maxRoutingSteps), it will be crystal-clear 
> why things 
> >are smelling rather putrid :<( If that turns out to be the case. I'm 
> >angling to earn some "developer" points, without yet writing 
> any code 
> >:)
> 
> then Toad wrote:
> > So you are suggesting that the reason that routing sucks is 
> that nodes 
> > constantly reject 80%+? Perhaps you are right, but from what I have 
> > seen the rejection is mostly because of bandwidth usage... 
> is that the 
> > consensus? Why do your nodes reject, people?
> 
> Yes, this is what I am suggesting :
> If 90% of requests are rejected, everywhere... then the 
> requesting node has to retry, using the "next-best" node, and 
> then the "next-to- next-best" node, then the "notta-so-goodd" 
> node, until finally, our request winds up accepted by one of 
> the LEAST APPROPRIATE nodes.
> 
> Remember how you "recently decided" to stop querying nodes in 
> the wrong order, from worst to best candidate ? You know, 
> that major bug you found and fixed around 6275 or so ? I was 
> thoroughly impressed by, and grateful for, your discovery! 
> ... which I jokingly termed the "Toad took his foot out of 
> everyone else's mouth" event. Well, "IIITT'S BAAACKK... ," 
> only in a better disguised form.
> 
>    The only reason any content is found and moves around at 
> all, is because some small percent of requests actually 
> arrive where they wanted to go in the first place. And users 
> are kind enough to retry their requests 5 to 10 times to see 
> if it hits something ...
> 
>    This is my theory, derived from watching everyone else and 
> looking at my node's statistics. I hope this is useful and 
> pans out. This just describes the problem. It doesn't offer a 
> solution. But if it turns out true, i still want some points 
> :) I'm just gonna keep bangin' on this QR-crap until someone 
> convinces me to shut up.
> 
> Ken
> 
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