--- On Fri, 10/3/08, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> First, how are you measuring the total throughput? The
> bottom left box
> of pan's status bar?
Yes. For my purposes, it's close enough.
>
> Second, what is the advantage of using 10 connections?
> This has puzzled
> me for a long time and I've heard several different
> explanations which
> haven't quite convinced me yet. This question always
> sparks a lively
> debate, which I've already heard several times but
> wouldn't mind hearing
> again.
>
My understanding is it is helpful when downloading a large number of headers.
Through trial and error, I found that 8 connections seems to be the sweet spot
for my connection and system. No slow down in speed and through put appears to
be improved over 4 connections. Changing the size of the cache made no
noticable difference as far as I could tell.
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