Re: [gamin] per connection flow control

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:15:20PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:09 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:21:42PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> > > Yo,
> > > 
> > > I've just committed per connection flow control. Currently only when
> > > inotify is actually being used will the event queue be used. So, now for
> > > some details. Each connection now has an event queue that is flushed
> > > every 500 ms. When an event is to be sent to a connection, the code now
> > 
> >   hum, this is more than the human perception delay...
> > 
> 
> What kind of delay would you like to see? 500 was arbitrary. What about
> 100? It's just that the longer we delay, the more duplicate events we
> can possibly throw away.

  I'm not the right person to give an answer.
  sounds like another tunable parameter. I could see people not happy if 
users notice a delay for the file icon appearing on the desktop or this
kind of things.

Daniel

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