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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TCP congestion schedulers
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:09:20 -0800
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> It could be L2 cache-coloring effects as well.  Try to keep the working
> set size smaller than the L2 cache size of the cpu you are on.

When/if using netperf, it will send from and recv to a "ring" of buffers one 
larger than the reported (as opposed to requested) socket buffer size divided by 
the send/recv buffer size.  Controlled via the -W global command-line option.

rick jones