Re: High connections...

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>]

Chris Marshall wrote:

> Pre Kazaa v2.x we would see roughly
> 5-15k connections per second).  What generally happens in our situation
> is a student running, say Kazaa, gets frustrated with the decreased
> bandwidth available and selects "search for more sources" for each of
> the dozen or so existing transfers.  Having already opened up a
> substantial number of both TCP and non-TCP of connections for the
> existing search and subsequent transfers, these additional searches
> generate even more connections. 

Standard Kazaa 2.x will do up to 8 streams per downloaded item, and 
the latest hack of KazaaLite 2.0.2 allows up to 40 (yes, count 'em, 40)
per item.  These tend to back off relatively quickly if the streams
yield varying bandwidth rates (slower ones are "pruned" away).

Jeff Kell
Univ of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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