Re: pipelined client/server behaviour

Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007, Adrien de Croy wrote:
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>> The worse aspect kicked in once servers started dropping connections 
>> when they got a pipelined request.  Rather a negative impact on 
>> performance that one, esp with connection-based authentication.
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>> So overall statistically we saw it as worse, and the benefit on the 
>> sites that supported it seemed very small as well.  You're only talking 
>> about saving one RTTs per request to send requests serialized (after 
>> response received) than pipelined.  The biggest performance improvement 
>> we saw in testing came about from the reuse of the connection.
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>> I guess if all servers and intermediaries supported pipelining, it would 
>> perform better overall, but I don't think it's widespread enough yet, so 
>> we decided to trade a small performance loss for an improvement in 
>> stability and ease of implementation.  We may still revert on this.
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> Did you benchmark it over higher latency links? It might not give great
> performance boosts for under 100ms but anecdotally it seems to load
> pages in Mozilla faster when the site RTT is ~300 to ~400ms (think
> .eu site accessing .au, or vice versa.)
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I'll have to check that - no is the likely answer though - good point re 
the latency. thanks.

Adrien


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