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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "Xiaoliang (David) Wei" <davidwei79@gmail.com>
Cc: "Injong Rhee" <rhee@eos.ncsu.edu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Sangtae Ha" <sha2@ncsu.edu>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP congestion graphs (2.6.19-rc4)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:10:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031161007.0fdf5c63@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7335583a0610311525h10cf4e75x42e421d3eb6f53aa@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:25:16 -0800
"Xiaoliang (David) Wei" <davidwei79@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/31/06, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> > I reran the tests, this time using my DSL line to home (80ms 1Mbit/sec).
> >         http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/tcp/2.6.19-rc4/dsl
> >
> > The only obvious problem is Vegas looks broken.
> 
> Thanks, Stephen.
> 
> It seems that the default Vegas alpha parameter in the rc4 is 1...
> 
> I observed similar situation with the NS2Linux simulator (with 2.6.16
> code) and found that if alpha=1, delayed ack will make it broken
> (keeping cwnd very low without real congestion)
> 
> See details at http://www.cs.caltech.edu/%7Eweixl/technical/ns2linux/known_linux/index.html#vegas
> 
> (Basically alpha==1 means Vegas seeks to see a delay of about 1 packet
> worth. With delayed ack, 1 packet worth of delay is common even with
> no congestion.)
> 
> To make Vegas work, I'd suggest to raise alpha to at least 2 or 3.
> (and beta has to be at least as large as alpha.)
> 
> -David
> 

I ran with the current default:
	alpha = 1 (scaled 2)
	beta  = 3 (scaled 6)
	gamma = 1 (scaled 2)




-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 18:02 TCP congestion graphs Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-25 22:34 ` Injong Rhee
2006-10-26  1:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 18:50     ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-26 19:36       ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-31 20:00   ` TCP congestion graphs (2.6.19-rc4) Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-31 23:25     ` Xiaoliang (David) Wei
2006-11-01  0:10       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-11-01  1:30         ` David Miller
2006-11-01  5:25           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-11-01  5:58             ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-02  5:44               ` David Miller
2006-11-02 19:58                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-28 22:38           ` David Miller

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