On 12/8/2013 7:55 PM, Phil Karn wrote:
It costs you nothing to let people use capacity that would otherwise go
to waste, and it increases the perceived value of your service.
Sometimes, yes. Othertimes, perhaps not.
I seem to recall an early bit of research on interactive computing
(maybe by Sackman) that showed user preference for a /worse/ average
response time that was more predictable (narrower range of variance)
than a better average time that was more erratic.
So, stability over throughput, sort of.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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