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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:37:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E3E8CAC.7010807@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1044249293.19078.1.camel@rth.ninka.net

David S. Miller wrote:
> TCP can only send into a pipe as fast as it can see the
> ACKs coming back.  That is how TCP clocks its sending rate,
> and latency thus affects that.

Wouldn't you just need larger windows?  The problem is latency, not 
bandwidth.

Chris



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-03 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-02  7:38 problems achieving decent throughput with latency Ben Greear
2003-02-02 11:48 ` bert hubert
2003-02-03  5:14   ` David S. Miller
2003-02-03 15:37     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-02-03 16:11       ` John Bradford
2003-02-03 16:19         ` bert hubert
2003-02-03 18:03         ` Ben Greear
2003-02-03 19:18           ` Eric Weigle
2003-02-04  5:19           ` David S. Miller
2003-02-04  7:50             ` Ben Greear
2003-02-04  7:39               ` David S. Miller
2003-02-04  8:42                 ` Ben Greear
2003-02-04  8:41                   ` David S. Miller
2003-02-04  8:51                   ` Ben Greear

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