When I looked at the documents on this site, there was no mention of the polipo default values for the three options you recommended:
http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/ Serverslots Serverslots1 servermaxslots Can you give me some pointers to the data settings? > -----Original Message----- > From: Juliusz Chroboczek [mailto:j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:41 AM > To: polipo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: John A. Wallace > Subject: Re: [Polipo-users] pipelining in polipo > > > If I am understanding the documentation correctly, Polipo uses > > pipelining natively > > Yes. > > > and it can improve performance if we make use of a PMM setting in > > "polipo.conf". > > No. Please don't use PMM, it's only suitable for modem lines. > Instead, you should increase the value of serverSlots, serverSlots1 and > serverMaxSlots. Three times the default values should be fine on a > fast ADSL. > > > Is that so, or would I need to make an additional setting in > > "polipo.conf" to utilize pipelining? > > No, pipelining will happen automatically when it's safe to do so. > > > So I considered using these values in "polipo.conf": > > > > pmmFirstSize = 20480 > > pmmSize = 10240 > > I don't recommend using PMM on anything faster than a modem line. > Sorry the documentation isn't clear about that. > > > I would be utilizing Polipo for the most part with Firefox in Windows > > over the tor network. Based on what I read so far, I understand that > > Firefox can implement pipelining but that it is not turned on by > > default. Am I correct in assuming that it would not be necessary to > > modify Firefox's setting to enable pipelining if I am using it with > > Polipo since Polipo itself already implements it? > > Sort of. You'll still get better results if you enable pipelining in > the client. > > -- Juliusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Polipo-users mailing list Polipo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/polipo-users
