On Sunday 26 November 2006 09:44, Michael Rogers wrote: > toad wrote: > > Did you compare mandatory with advisory backoff? > > Advisory backoff works much better - please see the attached graphs. The > results without throttling or backoff look good, but for higher loads > the success rate collapses spectacularly - I haven't been able to get > any precise figures because the message queues get so long I run out of > RAM. :-)
Throtting alone seems to work better though. I wonder if we should disable the backoff logic and see what happens. If we trust your simulations, we should not see much of a difference at all. Ed
