Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Dahlia Trimble
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 rat

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Henri Beauchamp
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 b

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Henri Beauchamp
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:05:38 -0700, Dahlia Trimble wrote: > Would this excerpt from RFC2616 (section 8.2) be relevent? Perhaps some > routers and other infrastructure assume this as design criteria: > > " Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of >simultaneous conne

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
On 2012-10-23 15:25 , Monty Brandenberg wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:05 PM, Dahlia Trimble wrote: Would this excerpt from RFC2616 (section 8.2) be relevent? Perhaps some routers and other infrastructure assume this as design criteria: Oh, it absolutely is but mostly honored in its breach. IETF 'SHO

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Monty Brandenberg
On 10/23/2012 2:05 PM, Dahlia Trimble wrote: > Would this excerpt from RFC2616 (section 8.2) be relevent? Perhaps some > routers and other infrastructure assume this as design criteria: Oh, it absolutely is but mostly honored in its breach. IETF 'SHOULD' is so much weaker than its 'MUST' _

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
On 2012-10-23 14:05 , Dahlia Trimble wrote: > Would this excerpt from RFC2616 (section 8.2) be relevent? Perhaps > some routers and other infrastructure assume this as design criteria: > " > Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of > simultaneous connections that

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Dahlia Trimble
Would this excerpt from RFC2616 (section 8.2) be relevent? Perhaps some routers and other infrastructure assume this as design criteria: " Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user clien

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Monty Brandenberg
On 10/23/2012 6:10 AM, Henri Beauchamp wrote: > And in fact, llappcorehttp.cpp only touches CP_CONNECTION_LIMIT, so > CP_PER_HOST_CONNECTION_LIMIT is kept at its default (8) whatever the > TextureFetchConcurrency debug setting value, meaning the viewer never > opens more than 8 simultaneous connec

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread 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 ro

Re: [opensource-dev] New HTTP Library & Project Viewer

2012-10-23 Thread Henri Beauchamp
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:01:29 -0400, Monty Brandenberg wrote: > On 10/22/2012 6:28 PM, Henri Beauchamp wrote: > > > In the current implementation, the new HTTP core can be configured to > > spawn from 12 to up to 256 (!) simultaneous connections... The texture > > fetcher code however never queues