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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


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