Re: Average ping time limit causing problems to tran sfer rates?

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.technical
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On Tuesday 21 August 2007 00:13, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007 21:59, Malkus Lindroos wrote:
> > Of course it depends on what the ping time is supposed to reflect? At
> > least for my nodes it seems to reflect the load of the network the node
> > is connected to, not the load of the node or its internet connection.
> 
> It's a combination of the round trip time under ideal conditions (<0.2ms on 
my 
> LAN), and the effect of the traffic on the links between the nodes 
(including 
> rate limiting).

Sorry, not just network load, ping time is highly sensitive to CPU load on 
both ends too. This is why it's such a useful metric; we can't easily 
directly measure CPU load, and even if we create platform specific hacks, 
we'd be fooled by idle-time processes etc.

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