On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:26:17AM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > 20k/sec, this is
> > probably only for fairly popular files...
> 
> I ran a few tests on a variety of large files, and amazingly, by 
> increasing the concurrent requests to 40 or 60, I could actually get up 
> to 70-90k/sec!  This is on a cable connection with maximum downstream 
> throughput of 160k/sec!  Additionally, I didn't notice any particular 
> degredation in my machine's performance (1.6 P4 512MB ram).
40-60 concurrent requests is _a lot_. Each one will probably require at
least 2 threads. Your node would not be able to do much else while doing
such a download. And there are of course interactions with our 1-3
threads per connection limitation too. Much of this will be addressed
with nio and related changes.
> 
> When downloading from Kazaa, you are very lucky to see that kind of 
> throughput, yet I was able to get it consistently from Freenet on a 
> variety of files.  Amazing.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
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