Last time I checked there were two servers on the Test Grid that had latencies > 1 second for every request. They were the ones named "sunpal" and "linuxpal". Yep, I see that they are still connected: http://pubgrid.tahoe-lafs.org/
This partly shows how the Test Grid is serving two incompatible purposes: Purpose 1: demonstrating the behavior and performance of Tahoe-LAFS to curious newcomers Purpose 2: experimenting with how Tahoe-LAFS handles an uncontrolled and dynamic set of servers, and failure and degraded conditions Now that Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.0 is out the door I intend to experiment with setting up a new "Demo Grid" which is high performance and high reliability. Demo Grid could serve purpose 1 and Test Grid could serve purpose 2. Atlas Networks and Rackspace have each contributed some servers to our open source project, and I'm thinking of maybe setting up the Demo Grid to be comprised solely of servers operated by those two companies. In the meantime, yeah, Boing Boing readers may experience very slow behavior or outright failure if they try to *write* to pubgrid and they unluckily hit sunpal or linuxpal. But *reads* should perform very nicely regardless since v1.8.0 has such nice server-selection on immutable file read. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
