Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

Alan Cox
2003-09-01T16:29:43Z

On Llu, 2003-09-01 at 17:13, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Each ACK that has caused previous delays generally opens up a 64K window
> > so you get bursts of data incoming. A sequence of acks can cause the
>
> the congestion avoidance shouldn't allow what you say. It sends a few
> packets immediatly (cwnd starts > 1 recently), and that's why
> non-keepalive connections are bad, but after that the congestion window
> will remain low if we drop the packets.

You may trigger fast retransmit patterns. Thats why you have to bend the
window.