On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:34:43PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > > Saturation is the goal. Wasted bandwidth is bad. > > Well, yes, but I'm asking "how do you measure how much bandwidth is > currently being wasted by other applications, and then only use that > amount"?
That is not actually the right question, because the answer is typically "None or very, very little". TCP's goal is to achieve saturation and not leave unused capacity. If you try to measure the "available bandwidth" that TCP leaves behind, you're not going to have much to work with. Your app need to grab its "fair share", which means implementing a congestion control policy that plays nicely with TCP. -- Daniel Stutzbach Computer Science Ph.D Student http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr University of Oregon _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences
