Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 Jun 1999 14:26:04 -0500 | From | Steve Bergman <> | Subject | Re: network traffic doesn't balence well on recent kernels |
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Jeff Millar wrote: > > When using the internet with late v2.2 and recent v2.3 kernels, the > first process to get the link seems to hog the bandwidth. My > configuration consists of a P2-266 running RH5.2 with many upgrades plus > a router/dialer running on a 486/66 and stock RH5.2. This doensn't > happen with W98 using the router. For example, right now I have two > download goings. The first started at 2.2K per second...about what my > phone line will allow. The second took three tries to start (timeouts > at the ftp site) and then started very slowly. After about 5 minutes, > the first connection now reports 1.9K and the second reports > 800....they're slowly drifting to equality. In general, once a download > starts, interactive use via a browser window gets very, very sluggish. > > Have I missed something on the this mail list about network tuning??? > Reviewing config options didn't turn up anything unusual or changed > recently. QoS isn't selected, Not optimizing as router. >
I've noticed this for a long time on my ppp connections. The first ftp transfer to get started hogs the bandwidth and subsequent ones get very little but very gradually improve. I would much rather have it the other way around so that what I am doing *right now* in the forground is fast and big ftp transfers get low priority. I really meant to ask about this a long time ago, but am just now getting around to it. BTW, does the reciever's tcp/ip stack have control over the priority of different connections or is that a sender thing only?
-Steve
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