From: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr•com>
To: dormando <dormando@rydia•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>,
shemminger@osdl•org
Subject: Re: 3 packet TCP window limit?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 16:56:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE1DB82.2030403@athenacr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1005051239290.28957@d>
dormando wrote:
>> This sounds like TCP slow start.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-start
>>
>> As far as tunables you might want to play with the initcwnd route
>> flag (see "ip route help")
>
> Ah, yes, initcwnd was it. I'm well aware of TCP Congestion control / slow
> start / etc. However I couldn't find the damn tunable for it :)
Documenting the flag in ip(8) might increase its visibility
a little. I don't see it documented in the iproute2 git head,
though it shows up on http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip somehow.
Stephen, do you know why that is?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 9:10 3 packet TCP window limit? dormando
2010-05-05 13:26 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-05 20:01 ` dormando
2010-05-05 20:23 ` Rick Jones
2010-05-05 21:31 ` dormando
2010-05-06 6:15 ` Lars Eggert
2010-05-06 8:51 ` dormando
[not found] ` <p2h349f35ee1005061513x1db24de0ld98a40256c481ac2@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <q2ud1c2719f1005061613yf90cd7c6r46ee23cc49858e74@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-06 23:15 ` Jerry Chu
2010-05-05 20:56 ` Brian Bloniarz [this message]
2010-05-05 22:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-06 1:37 ` [PATCH iproute2] document initcwnd Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-06 2:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-19 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
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