Bug 18431 – [Soup] Limit the number of connections

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Luca Bruno]

Hello,
i think the soup backend of the GTK+ port should tweak the number of maximum total connections and connections per host. Currently soup uses 10 totally and 2 per host by default.
For me 20:2 is currently the most responsive choice.
Instead incrementing the max conn per host seems speeder for larger web sites but takes more time for first contents to be rendered.

These informations are from my slow 256k connection, so you might want to don't take care of.

[Dirk Schulze]

It makes no difference to me to take total connections up to 20 but sites load a bit faster with increasing connection per host to 5.

[Xan Lopez]

It would be good to do this before 2.28 I think. What are the defaults for Firefox? IIRC bdash said on IRC Safari uses 6 as the limit for connections per host (no idea about the total limit).

[Dan Winship]

http://stevesouders.com/ua/index.php says Firefox does 6 per host and "more than 60" total, and Safari is 4/60+. (His test doesn't try to measure total connections beyond 60, so it doesn't end up figuring out what the actual total limit is. It's possible there's none.)

[Xan Lopez]

Created attachment 39133 [details]
maxconnections.patch

OK, using 60/6 since that's what most people seem to be using. It really improves some pages quite a bit, like reddit.com or planet gnome.

[Xan Lopez]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=39133) [details]
> maxconnections.patch
> 
> OK, using 60/6 since that's what most people seem to be using. It really
> improves some pages quite a bit, like reddit.com or planet gnome.

Well, or *seem* to be using anyway, since as Dan says the total limit might be unbounded. 60 seems like a reasonable value anyway.

[Xan Lopez]

Comment on attachment 39133 [details]
maxconnections.patch

r+ by gustavo on IRC, which has problems accessing bugzilla.

[Xan Lopez]

Landed in r48111, closing.