[Tech] Backoff considered harmful?

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:23:42PM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> >Throtting alone seems to work better though.  I wonder if we should 
> >disable the
> >backoff logic and see what happens.  If we trust your simulations, we 
> >should not
> >see much of a difference at all.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to investigate heterogeneous capacity yet - 
> backoff might be useful for avoiding unusually slow nodes without 
> throttling the whole network to the speed of the slowest nodes.

Well, that's what it's intended for. But perhaps there are better ways
to handle that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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