[p2p-hackers] UDP file transfer link speed identification

[Greg Bildson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org]On
> Behalf Of David Barrett
> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 1:42 AM
> To: Peer-to-peer development.
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] UDP file transfer link speed identification
>
>
> Greg Bildson wrote:
> > This certainly worked but suffered from fairly poor performance given
> > that there is an ack for each packet.
>
> Thanks for the overview, Greg, I understand now.  But I'm curious about
> your ack/packet performance statement.  Do you mean it consumes an
> unnecessary amount of upstream bandwidth, or do you mean it actually
> obtrains lower throughput?
>

Our acks were consuming ~ 10% of upstream bandwidth before we started
reducing them.  That is partially due to some message padding overhead that
I didn't mention which adds to each messages size.

Thanks
-greg