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Subject: re: MILNET/ARPANET Performance
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Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 17:17:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 17:17:33 1985
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From: POSTEL@USC-ISIF.ARPA


Folks:

I think that adjusting your times may still have a big effect on your
own performance.  Looking at the numbers Dave Mills forwarded from the
Gateway monitoring data collected by BBN one can see that the typical
gateway is receiving about 5 to 10 datagrams per second (maybe 20
datagrams per second during the peak hour of the week).  If one is
sending retransmissions at the rate of one per second then one is
contributing about 10% to 20% of the load on the gateway (maybe only
5% at the gateway's buisest time).  I think these numbers are still
big enough that ones' own traffic is not totally lost in the vast sea
of traffic contributed by others.  I think there is not as much going
on in the network as we commonly asume, and i think that one still as
a little bit of leverage on influencing the destiny of one's own
datagrams.

--jon.
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