[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #1170: does new-downloader perform badly for certain situations (such as today's Test Grid)?

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#1170: does new-downloader perform badly for certain situations (such as today's
Test Grid)?
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 Reporter:  zooko               |           Owner:       
     Type:  defect              |          Status:  new  
 Priority:  major               |       Milestone:  1.8.0
Component:  code-network        |         Version:  1.8β 
 Keywords:  immutable download  |   Launchpad Bug:       
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 I tried to download a movie file from Test Grid with Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.0c2
 (new-downloader) and the file wouldn't download fast enough or smoothly
 enough to watch in a streaming fashion during download.

 If you look at the download status that I posted on #1169: http://tahoe-
 lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/ticket/1169/down-0.html , you'll see
 that it often took a second or two to fetch a single segment. Also, I
 don't exactly understand the meaning of the fields (hence #1169), but it
 looks like downloader was scheduling up a large number of 32-byte reads.
 Is that right? Were those getting coalesced before sending them?

 It could just be that the current test grid has servers that take seconds
 to respond to requests and downloader can't do much about that. Is that
 what happened? ''Could'' downloader have done something about it, such as
 by choosing different servers instead of the ones that responded so
 slowly?

 I guess I should compare old-downloader to new-downloader behavior on the
 Test Grid, but right now I have to go to sleep!

 Oh, other people could do that comparison with this file if they like:

 http://localhost:3456/file/URI%3ACHK%3A4klgnafrwsm2nx3bqy24ygac5a%3Acrz7nhthi4bevzrug6xwgif2vhiacp7wk2cfmjutoz2ns3w45qza%3A3%3A10%3A1490710513/@@named
 =/bbb-360p24.i420.lossless.drc.ogg.fixed.ogg%2Bbbb-24fps.flac.via-
 ffmpeg.ogg

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