Trying to confirm a Firefox value

[journeyman]

If you use Firefox you may be use to seeing hints and tips - one of the favourites is to alter the pipelining value from false to true. Accompanying this often comes the advice to set pipelining max requests to anywhere between 32 - 100.

There are a range of issues that could result from this advice were it accurate - but what I want to know is this, as coders could you double check the veracity of the statement below:-

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests :32 has no meaning because this variable accepts only values from 1 to NS_HTTP_MAX_PIPELINED_REQUESTS, which is set to 8 (see nsHttp.h file in Firefox source).

I have provided what I think is the correct link to back up the view that values above 8 are pointless - but I lack the all round knowledge to be certain that I am looking at the right piece of information - I think I am, but I don't 'know' I am.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/sou...rc/nsHttp.h#96

I know this may stray from the norm a little - and understand if you feel it not appropriate for this forum - but I would appreciate it if you could apply your knowledge for me and take a look and tell me if I'm right on this occasion.


http://smiles.ru/coll/major/type.gif Cheers

[journeyman]

I am grateful to the admin who moved this instead of simply deleting it - thank you

I have finally resolved this query - It is definitely hardwired so that any value above 8 is pointless. Firefox will not make above 8 max requests until this hardcoding is changed. As it is, it has already been reduced from a maximum of 10 in 2003.

[sde]

thanks for posting the resposne that is some good info to pass on.

[journeyman]

Your welcome - I wasn't really sure if this was an appropriate place to post.

That said - here is the link to my thread on Mozillazine:-

Mozzilazine thread re Max Pipelining Requests

I was lucky to get a good guy with great info & the links to back it up - including more appropriate links to the relevant code than I had.