Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:37:51 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> Cc: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why 100 byte TCP segments? Message-ID: <199801120037.QAA04324@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:33:15 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980111162702.10734e-100000@alive.znep.com>
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>Aha. Yes, section 14.11. > >He suggests either knocking MINCLSIZE down to 101, increasing the >size of a mbuf from 128 to 256 bytes, or changing sosend to avoid >sending multiple packets when mbufs (instead of mbuf clusters) are >being used. > >The last one may be a better solution, but the first is easier. >I can't see much in the way of bad side effects offhand to changing >MINCLSIZE... certainly not compared to how annoying this is. It sucks >when it triggers slow start or Nagle especially with delayed acks. I seem to recall trying that and finding that there are bad side effects, but that was a few years ago, so my memory may be faulty. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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