[Tech] Backoff considered harmful?

[Michael Rogers]

Ian Clarke wrote:
> If your machine's performance limitations are posing a problem, you may 
> want to ask others on this list if they could give you an account on a 
> beefier machine.

Thanks, I'll bear it in mind for the future, but in this case the 
message queues are growing without bound, so sooner or later the 
machine's bound to run out of memory. But since the message queues keep 
growing we know the long-term success rate will be close to zero - the 
only requests that succeed will be those that succeed locally, and in 
the long term those will only be for locally-inserted keys since nothing 
else will reach the node.

Cheers,
Michael