[mnet-devel] Re: [mnet-cvs]this 1-line patch should fix the "we dont hello quickly en...

[Arno Waschk]

On 11 Mar 2004 13:59:02 -0500, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

>
>  Arno wrote:
>>
>> this won't do it. It still seems to set that timestamp without knowing
>> that the MT was reachable. The failure is usually a timeout, not one of
>> the cases checked in that function above the newly inserted line.
>
> I thought that the bad case we were seeing was that you were behind 
> firewall
> and didn't decide on your relay server soon enough, so it didn't even 
> try to
> send hello.  You seem to be saying that the bad case is that you tried to
> hello, but your hello failed.  Is this common?  Why does it fail?  
> Because you
> are sending to MTs that are currently down ?
>
> In any case, the 1-line patch I posted should be an improvement -- you 
> should
> definitely not touch the "lasthellosent" timestamp when you in fact 
> didn't even
> try to send a hello!

Oh, yes, definitely. I only meant that it should be shifted to an even 
later point...

>
>> I am afraid one has to put that into hello response handling....
>
> That would be good.  Shouldn't be too tricky to implement something that 
> says
> "whenever a hello fails, initiate another hello with a randomly chosen 
> MT" or
> something like that.

Where exactly does the hello response handling happen?

>
>> I am testing other patches in the moment, which produce nice results,
>> although maybe more traffic than necessary.
>
> Please tell us about these!


As soon as i can see what they are actually doing, sure.
Arno


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