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SubjectRe: TCP connection issues against Amazon S3
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On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 15:14 +0000, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> (CCing Yuchung, as his name comes up in the relevant commits)
>
> After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04.5 to 14.04.1 we have begun seeing
> intermittent TCP connection hangs for HTTP image requests against
> Amazon S3. 3-5% of requests will suddenly stall in the middle of the
> transfer before timing out. We see this problem across a range of
> servers, in several data centres and networks, all located in Norway.
>
> A packet dump [1] shows repeated ACK retransmits for some of the
> requests. Using Ubuntu mainline kernels, we found the problem to have
> been introduced between 3.11.10 and 3.12.0, possibly in
> 0f7cc9a3c2bd89b15720dbf358e9b9e62af27126. The problem is also present
> in 3.18.1. Disabling tcp_window_scaling seems to solve it, but has
> obvious drawbacks for transfer speeds. Other sysctls do not seem to
> affect it.
>
> I am not sure if this is fundamentally a kernel bug or a network
> issue, but we did not see this problem with older kernels.
>
> [1] http://abstrakt.bengler.no/tcp-issues-s3.pcap.bz2--


CC netdev

This looks like the bug we fixed here :

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39bb5e62867de82b269b07df900165029b928359

Could you post output of 'nstat' command ?




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