Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:48:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mark E. Levitt" <> | Subject | Re: Fix for SLOW PPP Bug |
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Umm.. I've been looking at the use of "tcp_reset_xmit_timer()", and it may be > that we're seeing a timer fight between the delayed acks and retransmissions, > where both want to use the same timer and they don't like each other messing > with it.. > > Anyway, this would indeed have gotten worse in 1.3.73, because that started > using more of the delayed ack logic (the code isn't new per se, it's just used > in a new way). That could have made the problem much worse. > Unfortunatly, this does not fix the problem. I tried this patch against a clean 1.3.85. In fact, it seems to make the problem slightly worse, but I wouldn't swear to that perception.
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