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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/26] Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), take 2
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 02:50:20 +0100
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> Higher load -> more time before a process runs -> rcvbuf overfills ->

How can the rcvbuf overfill if the sender doesn't run?

> ACKs dropped -> timeouts -> more retransmissions -> even higher load.
> 
> Things are fine until they hit a point where everything goes to hell.

-Andi