an interesting observation on network performence

[Max Laier]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I get better network performance on XP running under qemu on 8-current.
> (sorry don't have hard numbers but it roughly [two] times better on p2p
> apps).   Here is the config:
...
> Host p2p program: deluge (latest)
>
> Guest OS:
>
> XP Pro SP2 (all updates as of 1/1/2007)
>
> Guest p2p program: uTorrent 1.7

bittorrent performance is determined by a lager number of factores, the 
least of which is the OS.  Things like time of day, number of active 
peers, and certainly not least the protocol implementation play a much 
bigger role than TCP performance.

Compare downloading over HTTP for a comparable benchmark, or at very least 
use the same bittorrent implementation.

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