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From: Holger Hoffstaette <holger.hoffstaette@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Torrent with dynamics throttles
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:40:33
Message-Id: pan.2011.08.15.16.38.29.422375@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Torrent with dynamics throttles by Paul Hartman
1 On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:02:01 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Andrea Conti <alyf@××××.net> wrote:
4 >> All the other considerations apply, especially the one about capping the
5 >> total outgoing bandwidth to something less than the actual available
6 >> bandwidth so that the modem's tx queue stays empty.
7 >
8 > In my (limited) experience, even if this is the only thing you do, it has
9 > a noticeable impact on responsiveness of a busy connection.
10
11 Which is why it is much more important to use a client that uses the µTP
12 protocol, which prevents TCP starvation (aka buffer bloat):
13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Transport_Protocol
14
15 cheers :)
16 -h