Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:19:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network performance tuning. Message-ID: <3B4F3BBD.BFCA3011@mindspring.com> References: <20010712212051.K21859-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote: > > Actually, we can shrink the window, but that's strongly discouraged > > by a lot of papers/books. > > I doubt you really need to shrink the window ever - the fact that you've > hit the mbuf limit basically enforces that limit. And, if we're only > upping the limit based on actual ACKing of data, there's no (major) DoS > issue. Ask Julian about this. He has some very smart code in the InterJet; I'm not sure it ever made it into production, or even out of Whistle. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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