[63219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Francis)
Tue Sep 30 17:18:10 2003
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:17:44 -0700
From: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com>
To: "Temkin, David" <temkin@sig.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <DDE1D547D9B5B741A47D7354A5FFF4B701F50A1F@msgbal509.ds.susq.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We do on some systems that do bulk data transfer over links with latency
(latency being 70 ms cross country).
Temkin, David wrote:
> Is there anyone in a production environment who, as part of their
> system build process, adjusts the TCP receive window/MSS/etc. on
> production systems?
>
> I'm dealing with a few latency issues and the MSS settings improve
> them, but I'm hesitant to suggest it unless there's something I can
> point to.
>
> -Dave
>
