That is how I read it as well. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:56 PM Marcel Jamin via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > 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>: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> iQE9BAEBCAAnIBxQZXRlciBUb2RkIDxwZXRlQHBldGVydG9kZC5vcmc+BQJVsRCj >> AAoJEMCF8hzn9Lnc47AIAIQbznavjd2Rbqxeq5a3GLqeYoI4BZIQYqfWky+6OQtq >> yGRKaqPtGuES5y9L0k7efivT385mOl87PWnWMy61xxZ9FJgoS+YHkEx8K4tfgfA2 >> yLOKzeFSar2ROCcjHYyPWa2XXjRbNmiLzfNuQyIBArg/Ch9//iXUUM+GG0mChF5k >> nUxLstXgXDNh5H8xkHeLi4lEbt9HFiwcZnT1Tzeo2dvVTujrtyNb/zEhNZScMXDc >> UOlT8rBLxzHlytKdXt1GNKIq0feTRJNbreBh7/EB4nYTT54CItaaVXul0LdHd5/2 >> kgKtdbUdeyaRUKrKcvxiuIwclyoOuRQp0DZThsB262o= >> =tBUM >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >