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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: slurms@gmx.us,
	slurms--- via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Node Speed Test
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:05:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25607701-D3ED-4D0D-A5B3-C02B727671BF@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-c97bc41b-a953-4580-b2d2-ebdda9eb96b2-1437661199263@3capp-mailcom-bs02>

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On 23 July 2015 10:19:59 GMT-04:00, slurms--- via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>This does not support the theory that the network has the available
>bandwidth for increased block sizes, as in its current state 37% of
>nodes would fail to upload a 20MB block to a single peer in under 20
>seconds (referencing a number quoted by Gavin). If the bar for
>suitability is placed at taking only 1% of the block time (6 seconds)
>to upload one block to one peer, then 69% of the network fails for 20MB
>blocks. For comparison, only 10% fail this metric for 1MB blocks.

Note how due to bandwidth being generally asymetric your findings are probably optimistic - you've measured download capacity. On top of that upload is further reduced by the fact that multiple peers at once need to be sent blocks for reliability.

Secondly you're measuring a network that isn't under attack - we need significant additional margin to resist attack as performance is consensus-critical.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 14:19 [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Node Speed Test slurms
2015-07-23 15:04 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-23 15:55 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-23 17:14   ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-23 17:41     ` Pindar Wong
2015-07-23 16:05 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-07-23 19:56   ` Marcel Jamin
2015-07-23 19:57     ` Joseph Gleason ⑈
2015-07-24  2:55     ` Peter Todd
2015-07-23 16:36 ` Leo Wandersleb
2015-07-23 17:12   ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24  2:48 ` Matt Corallo
2015-07-24  3:19   ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24  3:54 ` grarpamp

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