[opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

Dahlia Trimble dahliatrimble at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 18:04:17 PDT 2012


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 <sldev at 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.
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