[Tech] The effect of slow nodes

[Michael Rogers]

toad wrote:
> Inserts are significantly slower than requests because:
> 1) An insert will touch a lot more nodes on average than a request.
> 2) This means the likelihood of getting a RejectedOverload is much
> higher.
> 3) It also means it takes much longer.
> 4) The RTT on a request is from sending it to finishing receiving data;
> the RTT on an insert is from sending it to receiving the all downstream
> transfers complete notification.

To me, this suggests that we should have a single throttle without RTT 
measurement. There's no point throttling inserts when the overall load 
on the network is low.

Cheers,
Michael