On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, David Luyer wrote:
> > This should impose limit of 8 KB/s aggregate bandwidth for "clients".
> > But in fact it seems that it limits it to half the value, ie. 4 KB/s (on
> > large downloads). Have I missed something? I tested this on a "test"
> > installation with single client.
>
> Do you actually have 64kbps bandwidth to the source site in question, and
> can all the machines in question handle it? (Eg, LC-III Macs max out at
> around 40kbps, as can NFS writes to Sun3 servers at even lower figures).
> (I'm not sure what could be causing this, and it could actually be a bug,
> but I'd like to know it wasn't some other thing causing it first.)
It's a local "test bed" configuration running over 100baseTX. All
client, proxy and the http server are on local Ethernet. All machines are
Linux. Maybe I should do some more rigid measuring...? Also I tried other
bandwith allowances and the throughput has always converged to half of
what I specified.
Bye Borek
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