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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:10:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        trim_your_ccs@loopback.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP Performance Graphs
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111301709320.9908-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15367.54349.876429.742833@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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>  > The question that immediately comes to mind is, why not simply use
>  > as big a value as possible?  The problem comes down to buffering
>  > the data, and busy servers may have to buffer a lot of data.  Having
>  > a 1 meg window size may have you buffer 1 meg per connection.  Note
>  > that FreeBSD's current buffer management is particularly stupid in
>  > that it will _always_ buffer 1 Meg, need it or not.  Until we fix
>  > this we need an interim solution.
>  > 
> 
> I thought that I heard a few months ago that Matt Dillon was looking
> at ways to dynamically size tcp windows from within the kernel.  Maybe
> I'm on crack.

You're not on crack, I don't know if it was Matt Dillon, but someone was
doing this, I was using the patches for about a month to test them out.

Ken
> 
> Maybe we should look at the Dynamic Righsizing work being done at
> LANL.  See "Dynamic Adjustment of TCP Window Sizes" and 
> "Dynamic Right-Sizing: A Simulation Study" at
> http://public.lanl.gov/radiant/publications.html 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Drew
> 
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