[opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

[Monty Brandenberg]

On 7/30/2012 2:15 PM, Celierra Darling wrote:

> FYI, the Firefox folks had a conversation in 2008 and decided to bump up
> from 2 to 6 by default at that time (partly because everyone else was
> raising it).[1]  (And for what it's worth, I found a mention from '06
> that "anything above 10 is excessive".[2])  That doesn't necessarily
> mean SL viewers should use the same values, but I think it probably
> demonstrates where people might try to push that setting, at least at first.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423377#c4
> [2]
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server&diff=28784&oldid=28783

On the limiting side of things, we have to deal with this
unfortunately:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/26843-linksyswrt54gv5reallyisalousyrouter?showall=&start=4

Finding a one-size-fits-all solution is a challenge when the consumer
space performance range spans a 3000:1 ratio.

I also did some tests on throughput-vs-concurrency and at 10
connections we're falling away from linear speedup.  The example
code in the new library happens to be a performance test framework
should anyone want to play...

m