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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:51:55 +0200
From:      Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Niu Zhixiong <kaiaixi@gmail.com>, Bill Yuan <bycn82@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: A problem on TCP in High RTT Environment.
Message-ID:  <8AE1AC56-D52F-4F13-AAA3-BB96042B37DD@lurchi.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20140809184232.GF83475@funkthat.com>
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On 09 Aug 2014, at 20:42, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:

> Niu Zhixiong wrote this message on Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 20:34 +0800:
>> Dear all,
>>=20
>> Last month, I send problems related to FTP/TCP in a high RTT =
environment.
>> After that, I setup a simulation environment(Dummynet) to test TCP =
and SCTP
>> in high delay environment. After finishing the test, I can see TCP is
>> always slower than SCTP. But, I think it is not possible. (Plz see =
the
>> figure in the attachment). When the delay is 200ms(means RTT=3D400ms).
>> Besides, the TCP is extremely slow.
>>=20
>> ALL BW=3D20Mbps, DELAY=3D 0 ~ 200MS, Packet LOSS =3D 0 (by dummynet)
>>=20
>> This is my parameters:
>> FreeBSD vfreetest0 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Aug  7
>> 11:04:15 HKT 2014
>>=20
>> sysctl net.inet.tcp
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>> net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto: 0
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>> net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto: 0
>=20
> Try enabling this...  This should allow the buffer to grow large =
enough
> to deal w/ the higher latency...
>=20
> Also, make sure your program isn't setting the recv buffer size as =
that
> will disable the auto growing...
I think the program sets the buffer to 2MB, which it also does for SCTP.
So having both statically at the same size makes sense for the =
comparison.
I remember that there was a bug in the combination of LRO and delayed =
ACK,
which was fixed, but I don't remember it was fixed before 10.0...

Best regards
Michael
>=20
> If you use netstat -a, you should be able to see the send-q on the
> sender grow as necessary...
>=20
> --=20
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>=20
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