Re: delay parameters

From: <david@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:30:32 +1100

> What is the difference between delay_parameters 500/500 and
> delay_parameters 500/3000?
> I have read the docs, but I do not understand what effect the increased
> maximum number of bytes in bucket has. It is supposed to speed up
> download of webpages but slow down large downloads, but I do not
> understand how it works.

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.

> BTW, is there any relation to MTU? We currently have 33.6 async with
> 1500 MTU, so what happens when maximum number of bytes in a bucket is
> larger than MTU (in terms of speed and effectiveness/overhead)?

It's not really particularly relevant.

David.

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