[mnet-devel] Is this normal bootpage access?

[Bryce Wilcox]

Kyle:

Here's what *should* happen.  What *should* happen is that each Mnet node 
queries one randomly chosen bootpage per hour.  Therefore the number of hits 
per hour on your particular bootpage should be equal to the total number of 
Mnet nodes divided by the total number of bootpages.  The latter number is 7.  
The former number is currently...  <Zooko checks.>

Something around half-a-dozen, and in the last 24 hours its been something 
around a dozen.

So that is what *should* happen, but Mnet nodes *also* hit a randomly chosen 
bootpage whenever they find themselves unable to talk to any MetaTracker.  
This has been happening far too often because the only running MetaTracker is 
on my development machine, and my DSL provider yanks the IP address from under 
it every few hours, at which point all Mnet nodes start frantically reloading 
bootpages trying to find out the new IP address of the MetaTracker.

We really need more MetaTrackers.

Earlier I asked for MetaTrackers and emphasized that there should be only a 
few of them and they should be highly reliable.  Well, now we've changed it so 
that MetaTracking is more scalable, and it is okay to have more MetaTrackers 
and to have less reliable MetaTrackers.

So if you have a server that is semi-reliable and you want to run a 
MetaTracker, please speak up!

--Z

> I just had a look-see at my web server logs.  The log starts five days
> ago.  In it are 4135 requests for the mnet bootpage--from only 22 IP
> addresses.  So, I do the math.  Each IP is averaging 'round 37 requests a
> day.  It doesn't seem so bad when you look at it that way, but if I look
> more closely I see chunks of time where the same IP has asked for it five
> or six times in a minute.
> 
> I'm not complaining; I'm just wondering if this is expected.  Could it be
> that my pitiful clamped cable modem does not answer fast enough to suit?
> Are these folks asking again because the first request wasn't answered soon
> enough?
> 
> One other data point:  In the previous week, 23 IPs got bootpage 1252 times.


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