[Spice-devel] [master PATCH 2/2] server: netstat: send random data not zeros

[Uri Lublin]

On 10/18/2011 11:50 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 19:20, Uri Lublin wrote:
>> WAN accelerators may compress the zeros which results with a
>> wrong bandwidth calculation.
>
> Is this really the right approach? Why not calculate the latency based on the
> time it takes to send the first image?
> That image is not using the WAN feature anyway, regardless of its being set or not.
> A waste of 256K, and possibly several seconds on WAN. Hundreds of packets, for
> sure.
> Y.

That seems like a good idea.
Note that if the first image is not compressed, we may have a similar problem 
with WAN accelerators. Also maybe it is better to always compress it.

This random buffer was intended as a quick fix.
In the long run, we would like to measure network statistics dynamically, e.g. 
when sending large images (as you suggested for the first one).


Uri.