On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:04:35AM +1100, fish wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > If we have sufficient threads available, we should download all the > > chunks simultaneously for latency reasons. However I would argue that we > > need to request in order for a non-FEC splitfile, to reduce the latency > > of the first successful byte. If the user fetches the whole file, then > > all blocks are propagated. > > you work under the assumption that users will fetch entire files every > time. I contend that this is not nessesarily the case, and in fact I'd > suggest that no more than 50% of splitfile transfers complete to 100%, > most get connection drop/cancel/one inaccessable block to my node/whatever > somewhere before the magic 100% If this is a problem, use FEC. Non-redundant splitfiles have a very limited range of uses... > > - fish
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