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Client Threshold

The client threshold controls the creation of independent clients according to the percentage of file blocks the client has received. From our experiments we found the system to perform well with client threshold around 0.75. Lower client thresholds reduce data sharing, increase disk access activity and lead to longer download duration (Figure 16), while higher client thresholds make the system operation less stable especially with large number of clients.



Rajiv G. Wickremesinghe
2004-02-01