From owner-freebsd-net Wed Dec 1 16:34:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D58115034 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA45401; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:32:05 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199912020032.QAA45401@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: interaction between Nagle's algorithm and TCP delayed ACKs In-Reply-To: <19991201104305.D67400@prism.flugsvamp.com> from Jonathan Lemon at "Dec 1, 1999 10:43:05 am" To: jlemon@flugsvamp.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:32:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: dg@root.com (David Greenman), freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anyone else agree with my (mostly theoretical) claim that the delayed ACK time should not be a global constant, but rather somehow roughly proportional to the estimated RTT?? Imagine N years from now when FreeBSD machines run at 100000MHz over 10000Gbit links. Then 10ms is going to look pretty long, etc. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message