[tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS v1.6: only one ticket left open

[Jody Harris]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com>wrote:

> Folks:
>


> [snip]



> This has three beneficial effects: first, if there is a server on the
> grid which is in a hung state such that it keeps its TCP connections
> open but doesn't answer queries, then with current trunk all
> downloads from that grid will stall indefinitely.  With #928, that
> hung server will have no deleterious effect on downloads at all
> (provided that K shares can be found on other servers).  Second, the
> servers which answer the query fastest are the ones that the
> downloader uses, which hopefully means that the servers that have a
> faster connection to the downloader are the ones that get used, so:
> faster downloads! This effect should be more pronounced on grids with
> heterogeneous and geographically dispersed servers than on grids with
> a bunch of homogeneous servers on the same LAN.  Third, servers that
> are busier will tend to answer the queries later, so this patch makes
> downloaders automatically load-balance to download shares from
> servers that are less busy.
>

Whoa!
"Third, servers that are busier will tend to answer the queries later, so
this patch makes downloaders automatically load-balance to download shares
from servers that are less busy."

There's a gem right there.... This could actually be built into the server
to either 1) delay reply based on load, or 2) include some kind of
load-indicating scaler (sanitized) to help the client better choose servers
to download from.

.... maybe. ...Complicated.

Oh, well.

jody
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