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Correct, it will stop serving requests (ignore the rest), but the end result is no different (in fact I imagine this is exactly what's happening). That system
by terryjsmith 16y ago
Correct, it will stop serving requests (ignore the rest), but the end result is no different (in fact I imagine this is exactly what's happening). That system is dead to the world. According to Wikipedia in Q3 2009 [1] Skype has over 500 million users (Q1 2009 says 42M active at any time); any super node that is processing a thousand requests and then dies (or only processes one request a second) isn't helping anyone.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Usage_and_traffic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Usage_and_traffic
- dennisgorelik 16y agoIf every supernode keeps serving whatever it can (e.g. 1000 requests per second) -- then outage problem would be resolved pretty soon. But I guess overloaded supernode does not serve anything at all. My guess would be that after 1000 successfully served handshakes clients send 1000 data requests, and most of these data requests are ignored, because supernode is overloaded. End result -- almost no data is distributed. Most likely the problem is in Skype code for supernodes (almost all Skype clients are supernodes). I think we should expect Skype hotfix soon.