[Tech] Re: Re: Backoff considered harmful?

[Michael Rogers]

Jano wrote:
> Aren't hits prioritized somehow? It seems of paramount importance not to
> drop a hit.

True, but the data can be relatively large (32 kbytes) so they also 
constitute the majority of traffic. It's important not to let them time 
out, but they need to be interleaved with other traffic.

> I know this is very basic, but bear with me: Do hits follow the inverse path
> than their respective queries, or is there something else going on?

They follow the reverse path. (I'm not sure whether this has been 
implemented yet, but there was also a proposal to trigger reinsertions 
of the data at random points along the path, in which case the data 
could spread off the path.)

Cheers,
Michael