Ed Tomlinson wrote: > 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.
I haven't had a chance to investigate heterogeneous capacity yet - backoff might be useful for avoiding unusually slow nodes without throttling the whole network to the speed of the slowest nodes. Cheers, Michael