9 Dec
2013
9 Dec
'13
12:34 a.m.
On 12/8/2013 7:55 PM, Phil Karn wrote:
It costs you nothing to let people use capacity that would otherwise go to waste, and it increases the perceived value of your service.
Sometimes, yes. Othertimes, perhaps not. I seem to recall an early bit of research on interactive computing (maybe by Sackman) that showed user preference for a /worse/ average response time that was more predictable (narrower range of variance) than a better average time that was more erratic. So, stability over throughput, sort of. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net