Re: delay parameters

From: <david@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:38:13 +1100

> > The basic idea is that if you want people to be able to download occasional
> > large objects but be slower on large objects, you set a large pool size
> > which is slowly replenished, such as a 384 byte/sec feed into a 65536 byte
> > pool.
>
> So it's like a savings account. If I do not surf for (65536/384=170)
> seconds, and then start to surf, I get a whole 64kB chunk at the max
> possible speed. Correct?

Yes.

> Does it also mean that while setting delay_parameters 500/2000 means
> reasonable surfing but slow large file download, setting
> delay_parameters 2000/500 is nonsense, because it is the same as 500/500
> ?

Correct, although 2000 is probably only a text web page. 65000 is an
average type of web page with a small number of images around 4-10k in
size.

David.

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