On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:40:23AM +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> Salah Coronya wrote:
> >Well so far routing doesn't seem to have improved, most requests are 
> >failing  (51051 requests attempted, 409 succeeded; 514 inserts 
> >attempted, 7 succeeded). About 14000 qph here.
> 
> Thats disappointing - anyone else seen any change, positive or negative, 
> with recent builds?  Most freesites seem to be retrievable for me, but 
> FEC downloads are still much much slower than they used to be (although 
> this may just be because I am downloading very old splitfiles).
> 
> >Its been brought up several times the reason NGR might not appear to
> >be working is because the network is oversaturated (you can't fit an 
> >elephant through a straw, no matter how hard you suck. No matter how 
> >good NGR is, no routing scheme is going to help if there nowhere for
> >the data to go because everyone's link is saturated).  I propose in
> >the "unstable" (or maybe re-opening the "experimental") branch, FCP 
> >bandwidth/connections be throttled to an artificially low number.
> 
> I think the whole overloading thing is a red herring, we have already 
> devoted considerable energy to this and I think the exponential backoff 
> is doing a good enough job of addressing this (anyone got contrary 
> evidence?).

Load balancing and routing are inseparable in their effects. Routing
can't work if it can't route to close to its first choice. HOWEVER it
seems to be managing this mostly - the stats suggest we typically route
to our second choice, which is a lot better than it used to be.
> 
> I think the underlying problem is still routing.  One possibility is 
> that the Estimator algorithm just isn't very good at estimating (this 
> could be due to the increased sensitivity at the outset leading to an 
> essentially random estimation curve).
> 
> This theory can be tested by recording response time information for a 
> given node, and then feeding this through the estimator algorithm, 
> seeing how well they do, to optomise their various parameters.
> 
> The worst case scenario is that we impose a forced specialization, 
> clearly this is undesirable as specialization *should* occur naturally, 
> but we may need to give it a kick-start.
> 
> Ian.
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