Good to see everyone having the HTTP spec discussion. This is the preverbial elephant in the room for this network solution.
Regards Teravus On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrim...@gmail.com>wrote: > I believe the 2 persistent HTTP connections/server recommendation is just > that: a maximum of 2 *persistent* connections *per server*. Torrent > downloads are more likely 1 connection per server with many servers. > Torrent clients also have the ability for users to specify maximum outbound > transfer rates and trying to overcome them by opening more connections to a > particular server will likely not be fruitful. > > Also, networked system designers may have control of how endpoints are > implemented but if the public internet is used as a transfer medium then > they have little (if any) control over what happens between those > endpoints. ISPs can (and often do) control traffic via whatever criteria > they deem fit. Choke points likely exist in many places and end users may > be powerless to understand and/or resolve issues caused by over-zealous > connection hoarding. > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sl...@free.fr> wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:28:37 -0400, Monty Brandenberg wrote: >> >> > Here's a chart I keep forwarding: >> > >> http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar/77-max-simul-conn >> > Not officially endorsed by Linden, etc., but a useful measure of >> > one metric that is likely to predict problems. At the bottom of >> > that chart you'll find members of router families that are both >> > very common and very often a source of problems in SL. >> >> Very interesting chart... And quite frigthening too, seeing all the >> so-called "routers" that can't even handle 1K connections ! >> >> This said, such routers would also stall on torrent downloads. >> >> Henri. >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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