[Tech] Re: The effect of slow nodes

[Jano]

toad wrote:

> Interesting. I'm not entirely sure what these graphs tell us though, as
> explained earlier ...
> 
> It is very surprising that slow nodes don't drag down the whole network;

Actually throughput seems lower and wilder; around 30k instead of 40k. More
runs could clarify this.

> throttling without backoff seems competitive with, if not better than,
> throttling with backoff, even on a heterogenous network.
> 
> Ideas? Explanations?

I don't know what throttling and backoff are doing, so I'm unable to help
here.