I'd be in favor of keeping the GNKSA seal of approval and, as some others have said, four connections is plenty for me.
I'd also be curious to know where the knee of the curve is on connections. Even assuming infinite capacity computers, there are still potentially two throttles in place on download speed. There is a max speed for any one connection, which could be imposed at the server end or in the intermediate infrastructure, and there is a max total throughput. If you have, for example, a 1 MB/sec connection to the Internet, you can get the same number of bytes with one connection at 1 MB or four connections at 250 KB. Increasing to 20 connections cannot help you at all unless the server, or something else in the pipeline, is throttling each connection to below 250 KB. There may be small efficiencies in having multiple connections. If one stalls at the server end for a disk read or a context switch, or at the client end for a disk write, the other connections are still pulling in bytes. But there is a limit to the efficiencies to be gained there. They are usually not large to begin with and it's not clear that more than four connections is helpful at all. Two or three may be plenty for that. Does someone have data to suggest that there is a real advantage to having more than four connections? -- Alan Meyer amey...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
