From owner-cvs-sbin Sun May 17 09:01:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04494 for cvs-sbin-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 09:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-sbin) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (omega.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04391; Sun, 17 May 1998 09:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@parc.xerox.com) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <32553(1)>; Sun, 17 May 1998 09:00:28 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177519>; Sun, 17 May 1998 09:00:11 -0700 To: dg@root.com cc: Bill Fenner , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dumprmt.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 May 98 00:48:08 PDT." <199805170748.AAA16545@implode.root.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 09:00:08 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <98May17.090011pdt.177519@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-cvs-sbin@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199805170748.AAA16545@implode.root.com> you write: >> The rdump request/response protocol can not invoke Nagle and cannot cause >> SWS, so this has no negative effects. > > "should not"...clearly it _can_! :-) It does not actually cause SWS despite triggering SWS avoidance. I was just trying to make it clear that I have thought about this and am sure that rdump is not suddenly going to start bashing WANs because of this change. Bill