Subject: Re: bizarre network timing problem

From: Felix von Leitner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:23:32 +0100

Thus spake Rick Jones ([email-masked]):
> Past performance is no guarantee of current correctness :)  And over an 
> Ethernet, there will be a very different set of both timings and TCP 
> segment sizes compared to loopback.

> My guess is that you will find setting the lo mtu to 1500 a very 
> interesting experiment.

Setting the MTU on lo to 1500 eliminates the problem and gives me double
digit MB/sec throughput.

Felix