On November 25, 2003 07:42 am, Ian Clarke wrote:
> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > My node is accepting about 10% of requests.  In my mind this it is not
> > working well at all.  I think the backoff scheme in use is using alchemy.
> > ie. there is no predictable result - we just say it is working...
>
> Hmz, in that case - you are right, backoff isn't working as well as it
> should.
>
> We all know that backoff is alchemy, but we accept that given its
> simplicity and because it isn't part of the NGR algorithm (we have a
> non-alchemy solution but it is much more complicated).  That isn't the
> problem - the important question is why are remote nodes continuing to
> pummel your node when they should be backing off...?  We should add some
> logging to this effect (note when nodes send requests, and when we
> respond with QRs.  See whether they are obeying the backoff rules, and
> if so, why that doesn't work, or if not, why not).

Did you read my "Ideas for Backoff" post from Friday.  If what I proposed can
be made to work, we would have a predictable and tunable solution.  ie we could
choose the QR rate we wanted and have a node(s) converge towards that number.

Ed
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