[p4] Bandwidth & Network Latency for Perforce Proxy.

[Chuck Karish]

If network latency is high (guess: more than 100 ms) request for
lots of small files may take longer through the proxy than directly
from the server.

On 5/7/07, Raghu Kumar C <RaghuKumar.c at tavant.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Bob, for the reply. I cross-checked this with my network
> team; they monitored and replied that there are no packets being
> dropped. I think I need to monitor it personally next time when it
> happens.
>
> -raghu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Van Zant [mailto:bob at norcalttora.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 02:55 PM
> To: Raghu Kumar C; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Bandwidth & Network Latency for Perforce Proxy.
>
> I'm no p4p expert but I don't think either of these values matter very
> much.
> If latency is 1 second and maximum sustained throughput is 1.5KB/s p4p
> will
> probably work just fine.
>
> The problem you showed us all last week was probably more related to a
> network connection that was dropping than anything else.
>
> I use p4p over a connection that has 20 hops, 250ms latency and 20KB/s
> max
> sustained from Ukraine to California.
>
> -Bob
>
>
> On 5/7/07 11:52 AM, "Raghu Kumar C" <RaghuKumar.c at tavant.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me the minimum bandwidth and the maximum network
> > latency (traceroute time from proxy to server) for the Perforce Proxy
> to
> > work properly? At least an approximate value for both these from your
> > experience would be of great help.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Raghu
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