move todo item to right place; reply

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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/syncing.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/syncing.mdwn
index 58b3257e3..34ea4a26f 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant/syncing.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/syncing.mdwn
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ all the other git clones, at both the git level and the key/value level.
   to a remote, so it won't be uploading content to us.) Note: Does not
   need to use the TransferScanner, if we get and check a list of the changed
   files.
+* [[use multiple transfer slots|todo/Slow_transfer_for_a_lot_of_small_files.]]
 
 ## data syncing
 
diff --git a/doc/Slow_transfer_for_a_lot_of_small_files..mdwn b/doc/todo/Slow_transfer_for_a_lot_of_small_files..mdwn
index acccec93a..00cdad0fe 100644
--- a/doc/Slow_transfer_for_a_lot_of_small_files..mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Slow_transfer_for_a_lot_of_small_files..mdwn
@@ -8,4 +8,13 @@ But currently it seems like git-annex is only using one thread to transfer(per h
 
 An option to select number of transfer threads to use(possibly per host) would be very nice.
 
+> Opening a lot of connections to a single host is probably not desirable.
+> 
+> I do want to do something to allow slow hosts to not hold up transfers to
+> other hosts, which might involve running multiple queued transfers at
+> once. The webapp already allows the user to force a given transfer to
+> happen immediately. --[[Joey]] 
+
 And maybe also an option to limit how long a queue the browser should show, it can become quite resource intensive with a long queue.
+
+> The queue is limited to 20 items for this reason. --[[Joey]]