Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 06:48:07 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), jkh@time.cdrom.com, mdavis@io.cts.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mark@grunt.grondar.za Subject: Re: A lighter sup -v? Message-ID: <199412241248.GAA07273@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Dec 94 21:44:49 %2B1100." <199412241044.AA20091@physics.su.OZ.AU>
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> The slowness of the update process over a slow link is I think mostly > due to the two-way nature of the traffic (client requests stat info > for first file, server sends it, client requests stat info for second > file, ...) rather than the quantity of traffic. This could be alleviated by interleaving requests, I think. Send out a bunch of stats at once, up to some window size...
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