[Spice-devel] [master PATCH 1/2] server: netstat: modify network bandwidth calculation

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:20:14PM +0200, Uri Lublin wrote:
>> Currently spice-server network bandwidth estimation is:
>>   send an empty ping packet to the client (and ignore it) ("warmup")
>>   send an empty ping packet and calculate time till pong is received ("latency")
>>   send a ping packet with data (256KB) and calculate time till pong  ("roundtrip")
>>   bandwidth = datasize / (roundtip - latency)

Just for curiosity... what are this calculations used for?
What practical effects could have the erroneous calculation until now...?