Bug 79407

Summary:	Option to set the number of parallel downloads to optimize download speed
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Joachim Eibl <joachim.eibl>
Component:	http	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adawit
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Joachim Eibl 2004-04-10 21:22:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

Is there a way to adjust how many parallel jobs are launched by konqueror, when an HTML-page contains many images?
What is the current value?
For some distant, slow responding servers the download speed would increase, if the number of parallel jobs could be set on a bigger value (e.g. >20).

Cheers,
Joachim

PS: On Windows this value can be adjusted via registry and for some sites it has a big effect.

Comment 1 Joachim Eibl 2004-04-10 21:23:20 UTC

Note: By jobs I mean KIO-download jobs.

Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2004-04-12 11:22:09 UTC

I think that's already possible with some cfg entry, Waldo?

Comment 3 Dawit Alemayehu 2011-03-14 18:51:34 UTC

Already implemented for every protocol KDE supports, not just kio_http for a while now. Simply look for the .protocol file, e.g. http.protocol in your system, open the file and change the values of the "maxInstances" and/or "maxInstancesPerHost" to your liking.  

maxInstances determines how many instances of the given ioslave can be running at any given time while "maxInstancesPerHost" restricts how many ioslaves will service a request to a given host. Of course, the latter is only applicable to ioslaves that connect to remote hosts.