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From: "John Heffner" <johnwheffner@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Socket buffer sizes with autotuning
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:39 -0700
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:
>  oslowest:~# netstat -an | grep ESTAB
>  ...
>  tcp    0 2760560 10.208.0.1:40500    10.208.0.45:42049   ESTABLISHED
>  ...
>
>  Is this expected behaviour?

What is your interface txqueuelen and mtu?  If you have a very large
interface queue, TCP will happily fill it up unless you are using a
delay-based congestion controller.

  -John