On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 05:20:09PM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote: > > >red seems to be overtaking green > >at 15, probably this is the result of the expected beneficial effects of > >backoff (isolating throttling from the effects of really slow nodes) ? > > Possibly - there's quite a lot of variation between runs, so we'd > probably have to average at least ten runs to be sure we were seeing a > trend. Unfortunately I need to use my computer for other things today > and tomorrow, but I'll set up some more runs over the weekend. It looks > like Jano's simulating higher loads so I'll try to coordinate with him.
It may be possible to get additional computing power if that is a problem. > > >It would be useful to see whether red can sustain a lead over green. Is > >there an endpoint, or does it tend towards a limit on throughput? > > I hope both throughput and success rate will level out - that will > indicate that we're not allowing searches to start unless they have a > good chance of completing (one way or another) without timing out. Then > it's just a question of finding the mechanism that levels out at the > highest throughput. Why would success rate level out? Surely as the input load continues to increase, and the throughput remains more or less static, the success ratio would tend towards 0? > > >At around 10, the success rate and the throughput start to increase with > >increasing input load, with throttling, with or without backoff; this is > >rather surprising too; I'd expect the throughput to increase a bit, but > >the success rate increasing is surprising. > > That is strange - I hope it will disappear when I do more runs. :-) > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20061130/3bed4aea/attachment.pgp>
