[Tech] Backoff considered harmful?

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On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:27:50PM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
> 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.

In which case, can you detect at what point the throttle becomes the
limiting factor rather than the submission of requests?
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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