[freenet-dev] Transfer failures

[Robert Hailey]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote:

> Since we introduced packet priorities, transfer failures have  
> replaced lost
> messages as the main cause of large numbers of error messages in  
> freenet
> logs. I have tried to investigate this: Firstly, I have set up some
> simulations in an attempt to reproduce any bugs which cause this
> (RealNodeBusyNetworkTest). So far, I only see transfer failures when  
> the CPU
> is saturated. Secondly, I have added a new statistic for the  
> proportion of
> transfers which succeed. On my node this seems to be consistently  
> >90%.
> Therefore, it seems reasonable to abandon the chase for the time  
> being, and
> demote the timeout messages to NORMAL?

What is the cause for the transfer failures? timeout/sender  
unresponsive/abort?

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Robert Hailey