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RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door)
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb () slac stanford edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:15:50 -0700
... feed "tcp throughput equation" into your favorite search engine for a lot more references.
There has been a lot of work in some OS stacks (Vista and recent linux kernels) to enable TCP auto-tuning (of one form or another), which is attempting to hide some of the worst of the TCP uglynesses from the application/end-users. I am not convinced this is always a good thing, since having the cruft exposed to the developers (in particular) means one needs to plan for errors and less than ideal cases. Gary
Current thread:
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Frank Coluccio (Mar 29)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 29)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Adrian Chadd (Mar 29)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 30)
- RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Buhrmaster, Gary (Mar 30)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Paul Vixie (Mar 30)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 30)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Adrian Chadd (Mar 29)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Frank Coluccio (Mar 29)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 30)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Paul Vixie (Mar 30)
- RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Fred Reimer (Mar 30)
- RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 30)
- RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Fred Reimer (Mar 30)
- Re: latency (was: RE: cooling door) Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 30)