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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: billfink@mindspring.com, sangtae.ha@gmail.com, rhee@eos.ncsu.edu,
	rhee@ncsu.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20.7 TCP cubic (and bic) initial slow start way too slow?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:16:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070612171603.47736395@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070612.151258.120619253.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:12:58 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> 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?

Yes. set it to zero. The module parameter could even go, and just
leave the route metric as a way to set/remember it.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-13  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07  0:37 2.6.20.7 TCP cubic (and bic) initial slow start way too slow? Bill Fink
2007-05-08  9:41 ` SANGTAE HA
2007-05-09  6:31   ` Bill Fink
2007-05-10 15:32     ` Bill Fink
2007-05-10 17:31       ` SANGTAE HA
2007-05-10 18:39       ` rhee
2007-05-10 20:35         ` David Miller
2007-05-10 20:45           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-10 20:57             ` Injong Rhee
2007-05-12 16:07               ` Bill Fink
2007-05-12 16:45                 ` SANGTAE HA
2007-05-16  6:44                   ` Bill Fink
2007-06-12 22:12                     ` David Miller
2007-06-13  0:16                       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-06-13  3:38                         ` Bill Fink
2007-06-13  7:56                           ` David Miller
2007-06-13 17:27                             ` [PATCH] TCP: remove initial_ssthresh from Cubic Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-13 18:26                               ` David Miller
2007-06-13 18:31                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-13 18:46                                   ` David Miller
2007-06-14  4:03                                     ` Bill Fink

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