On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Yoav Steinberg wrote:

> Looking at the Curl_pgrsUpdate() again, it seems there's a sliding window
> already implemented for calculating the current_speed. Currently
> current_speed is only used for checking the CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT
> parameter. But it seems to me it can be used for the
> CURLOPT_MAX_SEND/RECV_SPEED_LARGE parameters as well. This will result in a
> more accurate calculation for bandwidth limiting, make code simpler by
> reducing the speed calculation algorithms to one instead of the two
> different approaches taken today, and enable changing the bandwidth
> limitation while doing transfers. Does that sound right?

Yes, that sounds right. It makes perfect sense to re-use such existing code
and since we have that sliding calculation already done it should be fine to
use for this too.

I think the info should at least be based on several seconds worth of
transfer, if available.

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  / daniel.haxx.se