Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:23:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network performance tuning. Message-ID: <3B4F3CB1.2A33CF02@mindspring.com> References: <200107130128.f6D1SFE59148@earth.backplane.com> <200107130217.f6D2HET67695@revolt.poohsticks.org> <20010712223042.A77503@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:17:14PM -0600, Drew Eckhardt wrote: > > You can reduce the window size with each ACK, although this is frowned > > upon. > > There's "frowned upon" and "frowned upon". :-) For instance, if > the only reason it's discouraged is because it causes connections > to start running slower, then I would consider that something worth > rethinking. If there are cases where it actively causes issues > for the far end stack, then it probably should be avoided. > > That RFC is old enough that it's worth double checking that the > recommendations still make sence today. You can congest intermediate hop routers as a result of them buffering more data than you are now willing to accept. Julian's approach was much better, and much cleverer... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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