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Subject: Re: 2.6.20.7 TCP cubic (and bic) initial slow start way too slow?
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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 02:44:09 -0400

> [root@lang2 ~]# netstat -s | grep -i retrans
>     25446 segments retransmited
>     20936 fast retransmits
>     4503 retransmits in slow start
>     4 sack retransmits failed
> 
> It then only took 2.14 seconds to transfer 1 GB of data.
> 
> That's all for now.

Thanks for all of your testing and numbers Bill.

Inhong et al., we have to do something about this, the issue
has been known and sitting around for weeks if not months.

How safely can we set the default initial_ssthresh to zero in
Cubic and BIC?