[freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
ds the limits. But we will need more than that. Another issue is we have the infrastructure for determining whether a request will be accepted or not, reasonably reliably, before sending it. We could use this without queueing. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110827/e0b04971/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
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[freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread Ian Clarke
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[freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread freenet.10.technomat...@recursor.net
I'm glad to see that the subject of complexity has come up, and if I can speak to in a more general way... Complexity is insidious - you start with a simple idea, the creativity flows and over time, you are wedded to a highly coupled, inflexible and obscure beast that is hard to distance yourself

[freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
After trying out New Load Management on the network and seeing rather bad results, we need to reconsider load management. IMHO Old Load Management (the current system) is still not an acceptable answer. Ideal load management would: - PERFORMANCE: Performance is the number of requests running in

Re: [freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Saturday 27 Aug 2011 15:43:53 Matthew Toseland wrote: After trying out New Load Management on the network and seeing rather bad results, we need to reconsider load management. IMHO Old Load Management (the current system) is still not an acceptable answer. Ideal load management would:

Re: [freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread Ian Clarke
Matthew, This makes sense from the perspective of making incremental changes, but I think we need to be more drastic than that. I think we need to go back to the drawing board with load management. We need to find a solution that is simple enough to reason about, and to debug if we have

Re: [freenet-dev] Beyond New Load Management

2011-08-27 Thread freenet . 10 . technomation
I'm glad to see that the subject of complexity has come up, and if I can speak to in a more general way... Complexity is insidious - you start with a simple idea, the creativity flows and over time, you are wedded to a highly coupled, inflexible and obscure beast that is hard to distance yourself