Michael Rogers wrote: > toad wrote: >> In which case, can you detect at what point the throttle becomes the >> limiting factor rather than the submission of requests? > > The network with no flow control gets better throughput than the > networks with flow control even at very low request rates - this > probably just reflects the fact that it's hard to get 100% utilisation > from an adaptive throttling mechanism. Anyway the difference is small at > low request rates. > > The difference gets larger as the request rate increases - then > somewhere between 10 and 12 requests per node per minute, the throughput > of the network without flow control drops practically to zero as the > message queues get long enough to cause most requests to time out.
Are these queues FIFO? Would made any sense to try a LIFO policy governed by available bandwidth?
