On Monday 29 Aug 2011 18:58:26 Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Matthew Toseland <
> [email protected]> wrote:

> > Misrouting is unacceptable, in general. Extremely overloaded or extremely
> > low capacity nodes may be routed around. We might even allow some bounded
> > amount of misrouting in the more general case (e.g. go to either of the top
> > two peers for the key). But in general, transforming load into misrouting
> > (or into reduced HTL, or any other bogus escape valve) is a bad idea. We
> > need to reduce the incoming load.
> 
> Right, the same is true of queueing.  If nodes are forced to do things to
> deal with overloading that make the problem worse then the load balancing
> algorithm has failed.  Its job is to prevent that from happening.

Not true. Queueing does not make anything worse (for bulk requests where we are 
not latency sensitive). **When a request is waiting for progress on a queue, it 
is not using any bandwidth!**

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