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Experiment for number of persistent connections to server
Currently Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 have the number of outgoing connections to
each host(server) set at 6. Safari uses 4, and Fasterfox (a plugin for Firefox
that supposedly configures it to run faster) uses 8. We would like to see how
much of an effect this value has on browsing. Too large a value might cause us
to run into SYN flood detection mechanisms. This experiment assigns a value of
(4, 6, 8, 16) at random at program launch, and uses it throughout the run.
r=jar
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