Re: pipelining in polipo

When I looked at the documents on this site, there was no mention of the
polipo default values for the three options you recommended:

http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/

Serverslots
Serverslots1
servermaxslots

Can you give me some pointers to the data settings?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juliusz Chroboczek [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: John A. Wallace
> Subject: Re: [Polipo-users] pipelining in polipo
> 
> > If I am understanding the documentation correctly, Polipo uses
> > pipelining natively
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > and it can improve performance if we make use of a PMM setting in
> > "polipo.conf".
> 
> No.  Please don't use PMM, it's only suitable for modem lines.
> Instead, you should increase the value of serverSlots, serverSlots1 and
> serverMaxSlots.  Three times the default values should be fine on a
> fast ADSL.
> 
> > Is that so, or would I need to make an additional setting in
> > "polipo.conf" to utilize pipelining?
> 
> No, pipelining will happen automatically when it's safe to do so.
> 
> > So I considered using these values in "polipo.conf":
> >
> > pmmFirstSize = 20480
> > pmmSize = 10240
> 
> I don't recommend using PMM on anything faster than a modem line.
> Sorry the documentation isn't clear about that.
> 
> > I would be utilizing Polipo for the most part with Firefox in Windows
> > over the tor network. Based on what I read so far, I understand that
> > Firefox can implement pipelining but that it is not turned on by
> > default. Am I correct in assuming that it would not be necessary to
> > modify Firefox's setting to enable pipelining if I am using it with
> > Polipo since Polipo itself already implements it?
> 
> Sort of.  You'll still get better results if you enable pipelining in
> the client.
> 
> -- Juliusz


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