[Tech] Re: Re: Backoff considered harmful?

[Michael Rogers]

toad wrote:
> They probably don't constitute the majority of traffic. Forwarded
> requests use just as much bandwidth, on the rare occasion that they are
> successful, and successful forwarded requests are almost by definition
> more common than local hits.

Ah sorry, I was interpreting 'hits' to mean all successful requests, not 
just local ones.

> That has been implemented. Simulations would be welcome eventually.

On my list. :-)

Cheers,
Michael