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Why PS4 downloads are so slow. Posted on in Networking , Games. Background Before running any experiments, it's good to have a mental model of how the thing we're testing works, and where the problems might be. Maybe the client doesn't support the TCP window scaling option, while the proxy does. Without window scaling, the receive window will be limited to 64kB. But since we know Sony started with a TCP stack that supports window scaling, they would have had to go out of their way to disable it.
Slow downloads, for no benefit. Maybe the actual downloader application is very slow. The operating system is supposed to have a certain amount of buffer space available for each connection.
If the network is delivering data to the OS faster than the application is reading it, the buffer will start to fill up, and the OS will reduce the receive window as a form of back-pressure. But this can't be the reason; if the application is the bottleneck, it'll be a bottleneck with or without the proxy. The operating system is trying to dynamically scale the receive window to match the actual network conditions, but something is going wrong.
This would be interesting, so it's what we're hoping to find. The initial theories are in place, let's get digging. When the download was started, the game Styx: Shards of Darkness was running in the background just idling in the title screen. The download was limited by a receive window of under 7kB. This is an incredibly low value; it's basically going to cause the downloads to take times longer than they should. And this was not a coincidence, whenever that game was running, the receive window would be that low.
Having an app running e. Netflix, Spotify limited the receive window to kB, for about a 5x reduction in potential download speed. Moving apps, games, or the download window to the foreground or background didn't have any effect on the receive window. Launching some other games Horizon: Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4, Dreadnought seemed to have the same effect as running an app.
Playing an online match in a networked game Dreadnought caused the receive window to be artificially limited to 7kB. Playing around in a non-networked game Horizon: Zero Dawn had a very inconsistent effect on the receive window, with the effect seemingly depending on the intensity of gameplay. This looks like a genuine resource restriction download process getting variable amounts of CPU , rather than an artificial limit.
I ran a speedtest at a time when downloads were limited to 7kB receive window. It got a decent receive window of over kB; the conclusion is that the artificial receive window limit appears to only apply to PSN downloads. Putting the PS4 into rest mode had no effect. Built-in features of the PS4 UI, like the web browser, do not count as apps. When a game was started causing the previously running game to be stopped automatically , the receive window could increase to kB for a very brief period of time.
Basically it appears that the receive window gets unclamped when the old game stops, and then clamped again a few seconds later when the new game actually starts up.
Conclusions If any applications are running, the PS4 appears to change the settings for PSN store downloads, artificially restricting their speed. There are a few important details: Just leaving the other applications running in the background will not help. The exact same limit is applied whether the download progress bar is in the foreground or not.
Putting the PS4 into rest mode might or might not help, depending on your system settings. The artificial limit applies only to the PSN store downloads. It does not affect e. This is why the speedtest might report much higher speeds than the actual downloads, even though both are delivered from the same CDN servers. Not all applications are equal; most of them will cause the connections to slow down by up to a factor of 5.
Some games will cause a difference of about a factor of Some games will start off with the factor of 5, and then migrate to the factor of once you leave the start menu and start playing.
The above limits are artificial. In addition to that, actively playing a game can cause game downloads to slow down. This appears to be due to a genuine lack of CPU resources with the game understandably having top priority. Speculation Those were the facts as I see them. Q: Is this an intentional feature? If so, what its purpose? Q: Is this feature implemented well? Oh dear God, no.
It's hard to believe just how sloppy this implementation is. Q: How can this still be a problem, 4 years after launch? Footnotes [ 1 ] How idle? Next » Numbers and tagged pointers in early Lisp implementations. Previous « The mystery of the hanging S3 downloads.
Thank you for investigating this issue. I was wondering about this for years now. Just thought it would be interesting. I don't think that's going to work : Large companies don't really have mechanisms in place for feedback like this.
The actual graphing was done with R, using the ggplot2 library. Any chance you want to assess the PlayStation Store website store.
It's even worse and makes Nintendo's backend look cutting edge! Max, Right. Brett, Hollywood, What kind of speeds are you seeing on wired vs. Thanks for this write-up; some very interesting details For the most part, I like how the comments here aren't of the fanboy nature; try to IMPROVE the situation is much better than troll banter. Kenneth, It appears that the ARM coprocessor is not actually used for downloads, even though it was the original plan. Jack, This was on an non-slim PS4.
The Pro might help for that. The other things discussed were purely related to system software. Bart, It'll be easy to verify by taking a packet capture.
Ernst, This was covered in an earlier comment. I've used a local proxy since the launch of the PS4 and I have a mbit fibre connection. AngryAtom, Sure, it could be that this is what they were going for.
SnowLeopard71, Can't say for sure without actually redoing the testing. Mike, The problem here is that the Youtube or Netflix app is on is an awful way to detect whether somebody else is using the connection. I think the real issue is Sony doesn't know what they're doing. Great read. Post comment. Name Message As an antispam measure, you need to write a super-secret password below.
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