[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 137282] [SOUP] Consider reducing max simultaneous connections

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Sat May 23 11:41:20 PDT 2015


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137282

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to comment #1) 
> In general a higher amount of max_connections allows more parallelism, and
> thus faster downloads. Said that, the only reason to limit that number
> (apart from not overflowing your router's NAT) is to be "nice" with the
> servers and the other clients.

I presume that major browsers use a lower number because having more connections open could slow them down, and they prefer to fully load a few resources and then fully load a few more rather than have many loading at the same time. It probably makes the browser feel "faster."

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