[Tech] Re: Backoff considered harmful?

[toad]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:02:21PM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
> 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.

Hmm. Okay can you explain a little more about why we try a randomly
chosen bucket first?
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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