moxie0/Convergence — Issue #137: Contacting full notaries list uses too much resources
Author: johnnynoone
Created: 2012-01-07 11:37:54+00:00
State: open

Contacting my full notaries list causes most of them to timeout. The current method of handling this is counter-intuitive as disabling notaries means they will never get used, and rotating notary use requires accessing the full list each time and individually toggling them.

My suggestion is to have a setting that allows a number of random notaries to be used each time, just like the singular random bridge selection.

For example, if I have 40 notaries in my list, and in the settings I input 5 as the number I want to contact, then 6 random notaries will be selected from my list of 40. (ONE bridge and FIVE confirmation notaries) In GUI terms, it could be a integer spin box with the choices between 1 and (n - 1). (n = total notaries or total notaries enabled)

Unfortunately, the last version I used was 0.07, so if this no longer applies, feel free to close this.

Thanks