On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:02:09PM +0100, Jano wrote: > 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?
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