In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I was wondering - is everyone confident enough that all these clients >choosing the "best" servers won't eventually settle on the same small >handfull of them?
... that could happen, but ... The pool-servers should be able to cap the amount of traffic ; KODs for excessive clients and new clients when the amount of traffic is "too high". This requires that 'demand' (by all clients) doesn't exceed 'supply' (by all servers). If that happens, the pool project is doomed anyway. The goal of the poolclient project should be (in my view) a more efficient match between supply and demand. Servers are more efficient if they serve 'close by' clients. The poolclient mechanism allows clients to find 'close by' servers. >rick jones Henk Penning -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- _ Henk P. Penning, Computer Systems Group R Uithof CGN-A232 _/ \_ Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University T +31 30 253 4106 / \_/ \ Padualaan 14, 3584CH Utrecht, the Netherlands F +31 30 251 3791 \_/ \_/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
