From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750883AbWCCOau (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:30:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751098AbWCCOau (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:30:50 -0500 Received: from zaz.kom.auc.dk ([130.225.51.10]:27016 "EHLO zaz.kom.auc.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883AbWCCOat (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:30:49 -0500 Message-ID: <44085311.4000508@kom.aau.dk> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:30:41 +0100 From: Oumer Teyeb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TCP control block interdependence References: <44081B7B.5060104@kom.aau.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks a lot Andi! I checked ant the tcp_no_metrics_save is not available... and it seems I am in luck, as the admins promised to provide me soon with a 2.6.12 server to play with... Have a nice weekend, Oumer I checked, and on my laptop 2.4.28 kernel it is, but on 2.4.25 machines I Andi Kleen wrote: >Oumer Teyeb writes: > > > >> From these I conclude that there is some TCP congestion control and >>retransmission parameter caching, that is also time dependant.... >>and I want to disable it completley... >> >> > >There is yes. > > > >>So in short do you know how to disable this control block >>interdepence? >> >> > >echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_no_metrics_save > > > >>by the way I am using debian linux distribution and "uname -a" gives me >>Linux 2.4.25-std #1 SMP Mon Mar 22 10:25:51 CET 2004 i686 unknown >> >> > >I don't know if that sysctl was already in 2.4 and it's unclear >if it makes sense to do any tests on such an old codebase anyways. >Better use a 2.6 kernel. > >-Andi > >