Each of these packets is, I assume, a single message.  I think it  
would be useful to see a break-down showing number of messages, and  
total message size (ie. total bw used) on a per-message type basis.

Ian.

On 6 Apr 2006, at 14:30, Matthew Toseland wrote:

> Packet Size (bytes)      Count     Packet Size (bytes)     Count
>     1 to   75:           20248      751 to  825:              31
>    76 to  150:          239541      826 to  900:              28
>   151 to  225:           52956      901 to  975:              35
>   226 to  300:            7297      976 to 1050:              15
>   301 to  375:             547     1051 to 1125:              35
>   376 to  450:             385     1126 to 1200:           17657
>   451 to  525:             216     1201 to 1275:             129
>   526 to  600:              44     1276 to 1350:              97
>   601 to  675:              36     1351 to 1425:             139
>   676 to  750:              14     1426 to 1500+:           1311
>
> This is a log of packet size from my node over a period of 20 minutes.
> Actually of my 2 nodes, and probably a little TCP traffic too, but not
> much.
>
> Interesting features:
>
> 76-150-byte packets: 239451 * 100 = 23,945,100
> 1126-1200-byte packets: 17657 * 1150 = 20,305,550
>
> Of the first group, 56 bytes per packet is overhead, so 13,409,256  
> bytes
> overhead out of that 23MB - something like a quarter of the whole.
>
> Obviously having many variable sized small packets is a bad thing for
> security, but surely it is a good thing for latency to be as low as
> possible by sending messages immediately?
>
> Another interesting point: If more than half of our bandwidth usage is
> on small packets, then our policy of only bandwidth limiting large
> packets cannot possibly work.
> -- 
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