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    SubjectRe: [patch] delayed acks decrease performances in congestioned networks
    On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, David S. Miller wrote:

    >The 0.5sec is the upper bound, which is specified by the RFC's.
    >If you look in tcp_input.c:tcp_delack_estimator() precisely what you
    >are asking for is there.

    Good. I' ll wait for 2.1.129 and I' ll let you know in case of problems
    (until that time I' ll continue with del_acks disabled ;-).

    >TCP's retransmission strategies, especially when SACK is available on
    >the connection, should even make the most broken of networks perform
    >decently.

    The problem is that most of servers doesn' t support SACKS ;-). 2.2
    releasing will fix this problem of course.

    Andrea Arcangeli


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