Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:59:18AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
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>> Matthew Toseland wrote:
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>>> Is this typical for your node? Does the average ping time vary a lot?
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>>>> * nodeAveragePingTime: 1222ms
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>> This might just be a sign that the link is busy - domestic ADSL and
>> cable connections typically have large router queues, so the ping time
>> can vary by several seconds depending on how busy the link is (including
>> non-Freenet traffic).
>>
>> Perhaps backoff should be based on the difference between the peer's
>> ping time and the median ping time of all peers, so a delay that affects
>> all peers won't be treated as a sign that they're overloaded? But then
>> what happens when all or most peers *are* overloaded?
>>
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> How would we determine "our" ping time as distinct from our peers' ping
> time? I suppose they could tell us?
>
Ping time is round trip, thus the median ping, though perhaps in this
case we'd want the lowest current ping of all peers since that number's
averaged over time anyway.