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To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au>
Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), jkh@time.cdrom.com, mdavis@io.cts.com,
        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mark@grunt.grondar.za
Subject: Re: A lighter sup -v? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Dec 94 21:44:49 +1100."
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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 06:48:07 -0600
From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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> The slowness of the update process over a slow link is I think mostly
> due to the two-way nature of the traffic (client requests stat info
> for first file, server sends it, client requests stat info for second
> file, ...) rather than the quantity of traffic.

This could be alleviated by interleaving requests, I think. Send out a bunch of
stats at once, up to some window size...