Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:15:53 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: Raise initial congestion window size / speedup slow start? | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:21:15 -0400
> You may have to go into /proc/sys/net/core and crank up the > rmem_* settings, depending on your distribution.
You should never, ever, have to touch the various networking sysctl values to get good performance in any normal setup. If you do, it's a bug, report it so we can fix it.
I cringe every time someone says to do this, so please do me a favor and don't spread this further. :-)
For one thing, TCP dynamically adjusts the socket buffer sizes based upon the behavior of traffic on the connection.
And the TCP memory limit sysctls (not the core socket ones) are sized based upon available memory. They are there to protect you from situations such as having so much memory dedicated to socket buffers that there is none left to do other things effectively. It's a protective limit, rather than a setting meant to increase or improve performance. So like the others, leave these alone too.
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