From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: TCP-Protection is really a pain... Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:50:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4201C9C5.1060002@pobox.com> References: <4201A382.1020208@rapidforum.com> <20050202205437.571a702b@localhost.localdomain> <4201B4EA.2030101@rapidforum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Christian Schmid In-Reply-To: <4201B4EA.2030101@rapidforum.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Christian Schmid wrote: > btw: Another problem I am experiencing is that downloads suddenly break > in speed from 360 kb/sec to 8-12 kb/sec. 5 seconds later they stall > completely. But the interesting part is, that the send-queue is > completely full (checked with a grep in netstat). This looks like as if > the receiver is just too slow. But this is not the case. That makes it > rather funny. The receiver is waiting with an empty pipe but linux > doesn't send. What could this be? With recent kernels, I've noticed that my browser progress bar will download about 98% of a page, then stall for several seconds, then complete. Very strange. Haven't investigated it at all, though. Jeff