Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:35:35 -0600 (CST) | From | Jessica Blank <> | Subject | Slow start -- Linux vs. NT -- it's time to acknowledge the problem! |
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Hello esteemed kernel hackers:
As you doubtless know, NT and BSD both have a broken slow-start implementation. As you may not know, when you try having a Linux box co-exist on a network with a Windows box, this seems to cause the Windows box to CROWD OUT the Linux box on the network.
There is a fix to Solaris for this-- or a "workaround", I should say:
http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/tcp.slowstart.html
THERE IS NO FIX TO LINUX FOR THIS. At least, not as far as I could find-- and I just got done Web-searching for a solid 15 minutes, finding MULTIPLE references to the Solaris workaround in the process.
It is high time this problem is acknowledged and FIXED. I am forced to share a network with a bunch of NT servers, some of which get plenty of traffic-- enough so that they manage to crowd out my machine to the tune of 600ish ms ping times to the Linux box versus only **70** (!!!!!!) to the Windows box. THESE MACHINES ARE ON THE SAME NETWORK, but the Linux box is as sluggish, latency-wise, as telnetting into a box on a MODEM-- whereas the Windows box, where latency isn't even as important (no one telnets into them), is nice and zippy.
I do not want to have to move to Solaris.
Please, how can this problem be solved? PLEASE CC ME ANY SOLUTION(S) DISCUSSED!
--Jessica
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