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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:50:18 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <eri@freebsd.org>
To:        Erich Weiler <weiler@soe.ucsc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Matt Connor <bsd@xerq.net>
Subject:   Re: Arg. TCP slow start killing me.
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Erich Weiler <weiler@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>> Have you considered empty ACK prioritization? I implemented this a year
>> ago on a pair of production edge routers and noticed significant
>> improvement on throughput. I have production code examples if you
>> require them, but this link should be more than enough to get you starte=
d:
>
> Fascinating. =A0pfSense does have traffic shaping options, among them ACK
> prioritization and queues. =A0Let me play with that a bit. =A0Totally cou=
ld be
> affecting me - my downstream traffic could be great enough to crows out
> ACKs, thus causing the TCP stream resets. =A0Sounds plausible, at least.

pfSense has dummynet and ACK prioritization that can help here though
i think before implementing
a fix you should find the cause to fix!

--=20
Ermal



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