[Tech] Re: Backoff considered harmful?

Michael Rogers m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Nov 28 17:02:21 UTC 2006


toad wrote:
>> It enforces fairness under high load because most buckets won't be full, 
>> so most tokens will be allocated randomly (ie fairly). 
> 
> Won't they be allocated to the nodes which are sending most requests?

Only if the randomly chosen bucket is full, which in most cases it won't 
be because of the high load.

Cheers,
Michael



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