On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:47:19AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> Well, you'd be surprised. 90% of the world still uses modems, so
> from the point of view of a web server it would be a big win. The
Doesn't that sort of make my point though? With the current defaults of
16k/socket there is no trouble filling modems, and no one seems worried
about the amount of memory that uses (basically all the installed machines
out there are running just fine).
So, if we leave a hard minimum of 16k/socket, just chalk that up to waste,
and call it good enough we only have to handle the 10% of the world using
more.
It would be nice to have the code to scale down 100 modem users to 8k, rather
than 16k, but that's still only 800k of memory recovery (for 100 simultaneous
connections), and we're talking about the ability to support streams that
need up to 1M per stream of buffer, so 800k seems "interesting" but not
"important".
Better would probably be to lower the default to 8k, more than enough for
modem users, and let the scale up code hit the few 16k people.
*shrug*
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