58374 - [RFE] Poor raw download performance

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Fabian Guisset]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Win95; U)
BuildID:    2000101808

I have made a little test comparing the download times between Mozilla and 
Download Accelerator Plus for Windows. It showed Mozilla is lacking something 
there. Check it out :
1) Mozilla-win32-installer.exe 6.78M
With Mozilla : - 2 minutes 46 seconds.
               - 2 minutes 55 seconds.
With DAP :     - 2 minutes 05 seconds.
               - 1 minute 55 seconds.

2) Scour Exchange, 1568K
With Mozilla : - 13 seconds
With DAP :     - 13 seconds

Note that DAP didn't find any mirror neither for Mozilla.exe nor for Scour. The 
site it is downloading from is thus the same as Mozilla is using. 
Note : I use the cable, so it doesn't quite matter for me. But it can get very 
frustrating for phone users to have to copy-paste the link in a download 
accelerator each time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just download anything and compare the times.


Actual Results:  DAP is much faster than Mozilla at raw downloading.
It is much more clear on larger downloads.                            

Expected Results:  Better performance.

Might want to add the performance keyword.
Fabian.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

What protocol are you testing?  FTP?  HTTP?  Can you give a URL to the test
file.  Thanks!

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

I tested it off 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly  and 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly (but I assume they are the same) for 
Mozilla nightlies, and for Scour I used cnet's download page, I don't know 
whether it is a ftp or http site.
I'm sorry I don't have much time to make more precise measurements right now, 
but I'll try anyway.
Fabian.

Comment 3

[Gagan]

seems to work fine for me. but of course we can always improve. There doesn't 
seem to be anything specific being implicated in this bug-- hence I am marking 
this as WFM but I agree that we still have to improve the overall performance 
(there are other bugs for that already) closing this one.

Comment 4

[benc]

reporter:

This bug is a "futured" or "untargeted" bug which has been "resolved/works for
me". Most bugs meeting this criteria are usually somewhat out of date or working
in the current builds.

If this bug is not happening for you in a recent build (such as the Mozilla
daily build, Mozilla 0.9.3, or Netscape 6.1), please use the friendly "Mark bugs
as VERIFIED" radio button to set this bug to "VERIFIED/WORKS FOR ME"
If you reported the bug on a platform (e.g. Linux) and other contributors
reported on another platform (e.g. Mac OS), please comment that it works for you
 but do not verify it yet.

For these multi-platform bug reports, we need to verify all reported platforms
-OR- create new "still broken on platform X" bugs when you verify.

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

VERIFIED I guess