Whoops.

Solving the wrong problem!

Not only do we want to accept a given fraction... we want to accept the
best queries by their estimators... hmm.

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:23:27PM +0000, Toad wrote:
> Here is how I propose to implement selective accept on NGR:
> 
> We keep two numbers:
> int totalRequestsAccepted
> double totalRequestsConsideredTimesLoad
> 
> We have the function targetAcceptRatio(), which tells us what proportion
> of requests we want to accept, based on the current estimated load (if
> anyone has a non-alchemical way to do this...) - one possibility is that
> it is 1-load, another is that we accept everything up to some value (say
> overloadLow) and reject everything above some value (overloadHigh), and
> increase linearly in between. Because of the hoped for effects, I am not
> sure that the first option isn't the better one.
> 
> When we get a request:
> totalRequestsConsideredTimesLoad += targetAcceptRatio()
> If totalRequestsAccepted > totalRequestsConsideredTimesLoad ,
> we know that we have accepted too many, so reject.
> Otherwise, accept, and totalRequestsAccepted++.
> 
> Thus, we don't need to queue requests, there is no additional latency,
> and the implementation is really rather straightforward, apart from
> calculating the target acceptance ratio. And we accept the right
> fraction. We need to do some maintenance to maintain accuracy (subtract
> the largest whole part of both numbers from both numbers periodically),
> and we need one lock, but that's it.
> 
> I will implement this on unstable soon, unless there are any objections.
> 
> It requires NGRouting...
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