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He measured the upload capacity of the peers by downloading from them, or
am I being dumb? :)
2015-07-23 18:05 GMT+02:00 Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>:
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> >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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<div dir=3D"ltr">He measured the upload capacity of the peers by downloadin=
g from them, or am I being dumb? :)<div><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br>=
<div class=3D"gmail_quote">2015-07-23 18:05 GMT+02:00 Peter Todd via bitcoi=
n-dev <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfounda=
tion.org" target=3D"_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>></=
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On 23 July 2015 10:19:59 GMT-04:00, slurms--- via bitcoin-dev <<a href=
=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfo=
undation.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>This does not support the theory that the network has the available<br>
>bandwidth for increased block sizes, as in its current state 37% of<br>
>nodes would fail to upload a 20MB block to a single peer in under 20<br=
>
>seconds (referencing a number quoted by Gavin). If the bar for<br>
>suitability is placed at taking only 1% of the block time (6 seconds)<b=
r>
>to upload one block to one peer, then 69% of the network fails for 20MB=
<br>
>blocks. For comparison, only 10% fail this metric for 1MB blocks.<br>
<br>
</span>Note how due to bandwidth being generally asymetric your findings ar=
e probably optimistic - you've measured download capacity. On top of th=
at upload is further reduced by the fact that multiple peers at once need t=
o be sent blocks for reliability.<br>
<br>
Secondly you're measuring a network that isn't under attack - we ne=
ed significant additional margin to resist attack as performance is consens=
us-critical.<br>
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