[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #287: download: tolerate lost or missing servers

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#287: download: tolerate lost or missing servers
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 Reporter:  warner                                       |           Owner:            
     Type:  defect                                       |          Status:  new       
 Priority:  major                                        |       Milestone:  eventually
Component:  code-encoding                                |         Version:  0.7.0     
 Keywords:  download availability performance test hang  |   Launchpad_bug:            
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Comment(by zooko):

 Many of the problems that I've observed which I thought were a case of
 this ticket have actually turned out to be a case of #928 (start
 downloading as soon as you know where to get K shares).  That is: it was
 ''not'' the case that a server failed and got into a hung state during a
 download.  (I never could understand how this problem could be so common
 if it required this particular timing!)  Instead it was the case that if a
 server failed and got into a hung state then all subsequent downloads
 would hang.  This was happening quite a lot on the allmydata.com prod grid
 recently because servers were experiencing !MemoryError and then going
 into this state.

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