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Re: High latency and buffer size

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:46:41 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Konrad Scorciapino wrote:

> I thought of increasing the buffer size, but according to docs, it's already
> as large as it can be.

If you get problems with the buffer size due to the latency, then the maximum
buffer size is probably too small.

But why is latency a problem once the transfer has started? Then you're just
getting a stream of data and the round-trip time shouldn't be major concern.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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