Refactored to allow offline experimentation, and ended up changing the
allowedvariation (aka fudge factor) to 3. 10 seems too high, and 1.5 too low.
Scale earlier, so even if the first chunk takes less than the configured
time period, allowance is made that later chunks might transfer slower.
Decided to use the same allowedvariation to decide when to start
scaling.
Smoothed the scaling out.
Some examples:
ghci> upscale (BwRate 10 (Duration 60)) 25
BwRate 13 (Duration {durationSeconds = 75})
-- A small scaling upwards after 1/3rd the time. Not noticable.
ghci> upscale (BwRate 10 (Duration 60)) 60
BwRate 30 (Duration {durationSeconds = 180})
-- At the configured time, 3x scaling.
ghci> upscale (BwRate 10 (Duration 60)) 120
BwRate 60 (Duration {durationSeconds = 360})
-- A typical upscaling, here a 1 minute duration became 6 minutes
-- due to the first chunk taking 2 minutes to transfer.
ghci> upscale (BwRate 10 (Duration 60)) 600
BwRate 300 (Duration {durationSeconds = 1800})
-- Here the first chunk took 10 minutes to transfer, so it will
-- take 30 minutes to detect a stall.
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