I really think Rik has it right here. In particular, an MP3 player needs to be able to say, I have
X milliseconds of buffer so make my worst case latency X milliseconds. The number of requests is
the wrong metric, because the time required per request depends on disk geometry, disk caching, etc.
Hans
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