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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:29:16 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Subject:   Re: tcp_output starving -- is due to mbuf get delay?
Message-ID:  <3E95F03C.2A01561D@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030410171640.C44793B2@porter.dc.luth.se> <3E95E446.73B7E510@mindspring.com> <3E95E8E9.3080102@ludd.luth.se>

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Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> > The products that Jeffrey Hsu and I and Alfred and Jon Mini
> > worked on at a previous company had no problems at all on a
> > 1Gbit/S saturating the link, even through a VLAN trunk through
> > Cisco and one other less intelligent switch (i.e. two switches
> > and a VLAN trunk).
> 
> A key factor here is that the testst where on a link with a 20ms
> round-tip time, and using a singel TCP connection. So the switches
> where in addition to a few routers on a 10Gbit/s network.

Sorry, but tis is not a factor.  If you think it is, then you
are running with badly tuned send and receive maximum window
sizes.

Latency = pool retention time = queue size

-- Terry



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