> Well if you wanted to be super careful not to waste bandwidth you might > choose to use setsockopt( ..., SO_RCVBUF, ...) at least. A value from > 2800 to 4200 might be about right. The reason is that between the time > you do the final read(2) and the time you do the close(2) or shutdown(2) > you will probably still have other packets in flight. Of course to > really cut down on all wastage you'd have to micromanage the advertised > tcp window to a greater extent. > I don't want to be supercareful. In fact, getting this involved in the way the packages get downloaded is not worth the time. -sv
