Thread: Chunksizes of 97 KB
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Old March 9th, 2003
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Default Re: Chunksizes of 97 KB
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Originally posted by TranceTip

97 KB is quite a small chunksize. Other Gnutella clients (e.g. GTKG) have chunksizes of 500 KB minimum and 5 MB maximum (but this is configurable). Small chunksizes mean lower throughput when downloading/uploading files, because a new connection must be established more often and the risk also is that the upload slots are full on the server previously connected to.
The TCP connection is persistant - it won't be dropped and reestablished until the download is completed. Only the HTTP headers are exchanged once again after a chunk has been downloaded.
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