// Check to see whether we need new connections
// TODO: We might want to spawn multiple assimilation requests (say, up to 3)
// in the event that we are well below minPeers to speed this up
if (config.assimilate && peers.size() < config.minPeers) {
final AssimilateSessionImpl as = node.sessionMgr.getOrCreateLocalSession(AssimilateSessionImpl.class);
final TrPeerInfo ap = getPeerForAssimilation(Collections.EMPTY_SET);
as.startAssimilation(TrUtils.noopRunnable, ap);
// } else {
// logger.warn("Don't know how to assimilate through already connected peers yet");
// }
} else if (config.topologyMaintenance) { // && !hasForwardedRecently) {