[6392] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Network Abuse by Netscape? -- Was: Mosaic replacements, etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Thu Oct 27 23:50:38 1994
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 04:41:25 +0100
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From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
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Overall, I am astonished by the current furor over the attempt to get
better-perceived user performance. The Web has some design characteristics
which make good performance difficult. Namely, all the connection opening.
Overlapping i/o requests is a time-honored approach to improving performance.
On the other hand...
At 12:34 PM 10/22/94, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>you are totally optimizing for people on the slow end of a 14.4 modem,
overlapping doesn't always help.
My eperience living on the end of a 14.4 modem suggests that MAYBE two
simultaneous transfers work well, but I don't think so. Certainly not
more.
The problem is that the congestion control mechanisms in TCP aren't
sufficiently sensitive to "coordinate" the consumption of such a small
pipe.
d/
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