Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: network traffic doesn't balence well on recent kernels | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 00:55:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Jeff Millar wrote: > > When using the internet with late v2.2 and recent v2.3 kernels, the > > first process to get the link seems to hog the bandwidth. > > I've noticed this since 2.0.1x, it might be 'normal' yet unexpected > behavior.
Link capture is a normal TCP behaviour unfortunately. You can reduce it a bit on modem links by lowering the tcp window (man route) and/or the driver queue length (ifconfig ppp0 txqlen 3 I believe for newer ifconfig).
What actually occurs is that one session starts to drop packets more than the other, it backs off so the other takes up the rest of the bandwidth, probability then says the backed off session will tend to fail to get packets through on retry too
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