toad wrote: > Hmm. Okay can you explain a little more about why we try a randomly > chosen bucket first?
To achieve fairness when the buckets aren't full. Or rather, fairness on average - strictly speaking round-robin would be fairer, but it also reveals more information - each time you get a token from a peer you know that exactly n of that peer's searches have completed, whereas if buckets are chosen at random you know the average completion rate, but you don't learn anything about specific searches. But that's probably a bit paranoid... round-robin should be fine. Cheers, Michael
