- From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 19:05:26 -0800 (PST)
- To: touch@ISI.EDU
- Cc: marc@ckm.ucsf.edu, www-talk@www0.cern.ch, www-speed@tipper.oit.unc.edu
On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 touch@ISI.EDU wrote: > I would predict that they would scale to around BW = 7^3, or around > 350x, and latency would reduce from 2.1 RTT's down to 0.2 RTTs avg > per request. > I grabbed a copy of the Touch and Farber paper cited earlier in this thread, which seemed to deal with FTP. This described a pre-send selection algorithm of sending everything in the currently selected directory. The Boston University system used a simple 1-level probablistic model to pick the best candidates for pre-send, and used fare less extra bandwidth, though with a higher probablity of a cache-miss. There's lots of stuff to tune with speculation. Simon
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