[103432] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buhrmaster, Gary)
Sun Mar 30 15:21:04 2008
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:15:50 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20080330170838.44e8b3d3@cs.columbia.edu>
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
"Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
=20
> ... feed "tcp throughput equation" into your favorite search
> engine for a lot more references.=20
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
