Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:46:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: jayanth@yahoo-inc.com, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slowstart_flightsize Message-ID: <200007061546.KAA19759@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-net/20000705132637.A26858@yahoo-inc.com>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-net/20000705132637.A26858@yahoo-inc.com> you write: >Not sure if this issue has been discussed before. > >Am I right in assuming that the sysctl value >net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize should never be >set to zero ? If this value is zero the congestion window >is reduced to 1 byte not one segment during slow start. >Just wondering if a check should be added that sets the >congestion window to one segment even if slowstart_flightsize = 0. Yes, there probably should be a safety belt of some sort, the range of this should probably be something like 1 .. 5 (or some other small number). I didn't put in any checks, since I figured that the people tweaking this knob would already know what its purpose was. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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