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From: Ben Hoyt <benhoyt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Minimizing TCP latency
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:36:46 +1300
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> Choose low-latency NICs. =A0Read the tuning guide, but run your own
> benchmarks.

Is this the tuning guide you're referring to?
http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/linux.html

>> FYI, we're using RHE release 4 and kernel version 2.6.9 on x86_64 ma=
chines.
> You're not going to get much help here in working on that kernel.

Thanks for that. I didn't realise 2.6.9 was so old -- I'll upgrade.

-Ben