Personal proxy not honoring buffer size settings

Hello!

I've been running a personal proxy for almost as long as I've been  
involved in distributed.net, which is since 1997. The current version  
that I have is build 347 running on FreeBSD 7.4.

For last several years I've been concentrating mostly on OGR. My  
clients are configured to work on OGR whenever possible and only fall  
back to RC5 in case of network problems, so I have rarely done any RC5  
blocks. Accordingly, I had limits in proxyper.ini set like this:

[rc5-72]
minkeysready=5
maxkeysready=400
maxkeysdone=5

[ogrng]
minkeysready=34
maxkeysready=2400
maxkeysdone=34

Given my client settings, this resulted in proxy connecting to  
fullserver whenever it had 34 OGR blocks in its out-buffer, which was  
typically once in an hour or so.

Now that we are out of OGR work, all my clients started working on  
RC5, so I adjusted the buffer size settings accordingly:

[rc5-72]
minkeysready=100
maxkeysready=7200
maxkeysdone=100

However, this does not have the desired effect. Instead of waiting  
until 100 blocks have been gathered in the rc5 out-buffer, the proxy  
connects to upstream server every couple of minutes when it has only  
few RC5 blocks to return:

$ grep "Last uplink" console20140218.log

2014-02-18 00:09:40,Status: rc5-72: Last uplink sent 2 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:09:40,Status: ogrng: Last uplink sent 0 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:12:59,Status: rc5-72: Last uplink sent 5 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:12:59,Status: ogrng: Last uplink sent 0 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:15:40,Status: rc5-72: Last uplink sent 2 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:15:40,Status: ogrng: Last uplink sent 0 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:18:42,Status: rc5-72: Last uplink sent 6 and received 0
2014-02-18 00:18:42,Status: ogrng: Last uplink sent 0 and received 0
... etc

I modified the configuration of my personal proxy this morning and  
thought that maybe it needs some time to "settle in", but 12 hours  
later the situation seems unchanged. I don't want to DoS the upstream  
keyservers with my constant connection attempts, but I don't know how  
to stop this. I tried adding 'expertmode=1' to the [rc5-72] section,  
but this doesn't help.

-- 
Toomas Aas
participant #32,484
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