* Volodya <Volodya at WhenGendarmeSleeps.org> [2007-03-11 09:05:49]: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I was thinking the following: > How hard would it be to hack together a basic feature that excludes a node > from 'Backing > Off' I think this would be a very useful feature for those who have multiple > nodes > connected to each other. I for one have a leaf node dangling off of my normal > node that i > use for testing purposes, of course as soon as i start doing *anything* with > it i get RNF > errors, since my main node backs it off. > > If i were to write such a patch would somebody immediately object and demand > for it to be > reverted?
_o/ I would : Backing off things is the extreme mesure taken against high, unmanagable load. > Is there a description anywhere as to how the load balancing works code wise? In the source code iirc. BTW, the backoff is now "advistory" and is likely to be obsoleted by the new load-balancing algorithm. > > Thank you for your time. > - Volodya
