Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 1998 02:39:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] delayed acks decrease performances in congestioned networks |
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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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