[Swift-devel] Re: replication vs site score

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:50 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > You are saying this with the awareness of the fact that replicas are
> > only sent after the prototype job sat in the queue (and didn't start
> > running) for what is deemed _too_much_?
> 
> I'm not suggesting that we reduce any submission load to remote sites. I'm 
> suggesting a different order for those submissions.
> 
> The queue delay is not so _too_much_ that we cancel the original on 
> replication; and it appears (though I don't have stats on real runs) that 
> the originals do run sometimes (though it would be interesting to know in 
> real situations how often)
> 
> Given that, I'm suggesting that a better use of our load capacity is to do 
> it with the ordering I suggested.

I'm still not following. From what I understand, you are suggesting
what's already there. So either that is true and you think the current
scheme is not what it is, or I don't understand how your suggestion is
different than the current scheme.