Re: Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net>]

> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:40:48 -0400
> From: Robert Boyle <robert () tellurian com>
>
> At 12:01 PM 6/13/2008, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Clearly you have failed to try very hard or to check into what others
> > have done. We routinely move data at MUCH higher rates over TCP at
> > latencies over 50 ms. one way (>100 ms. RTT). We find it fairly easy to
> > move data at over 4 Gbps continuously.
>
> That's impressive.
>
> > If you can't fill a GE to 80% (800 Mbps) at 30 ms, you really are not
> > tying very hard. Note: I am talking about a single TCP stream running
> > for over 5 minutes at a time on tuned systems. Tuning for most modern
> > network stacks is pretty trivial. Some older stacks (e.g. FreeBSD V6)
> > are hopeless. I can't speak to how Windows does as I make no use of it
> > for high-speed bulk transfers.
>
> Let me refine my post then...
> In our experience, you can't get to line speed with over 20-30ms of 
> latency using TCP on _Windows_ regardless of how much you tweak 
> it. >99% of the servers in our facilities are Windows based. I should 
> have been more specific.

Sorry, but I don't do Windows, but my friends who do claim that this is
not true.
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