[opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2012-10-23 06:10 , Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> Unless the router is buggy, it shouldn't be impacted by the number of
> open sockets (at least not under 60K sockets)... Some protocols, such
> as torrent can use hundreds or even thousands of sockets at once.

Our experience is that _many_ consumer routers are buggy in exactly this 
way.

The fact that a torrent will try to open many connections doesn't mean 
that most of them work - it recovers so well from failed connections 
that one would normally not notice.  I suspect that the fact that SL is 
also sending lots of very bursty UDP traffic also aggravates the 
problem, since that traffic (and TCP connection setup/teardown) is not 
congestion controlled.
>
> The true limit is server side.

All the more reason for viewers not to hog connection resources.