[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #302: stop permuting peerlist, use SI as offset into ring instead?

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#302: stop permuting peerlist, use SI as offset into ring instead?
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 Reporter:  warner                                                  |           Owner:           
     Type:  task                                                    |          Status:  new      
 Priority:  major                                                   |       Milestone:  undecided
Component:  code-peerselection                                      |         Version:  0.7.0    
 Keywords:  repair newcaps newurls performance preservation upload  |   Launchpad_bug:           
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Comment(by zooko):

 Okay, I was wrong because my simulator had a bug, and Brian was right that
 a flat ring has substantially worse load-balancing properties. I think we
 should close this ticket as {{{wontfix}}}, but I'd like to read through it
 one last time and extract any valuable bits first.

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Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/302#comment:20>
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