Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeff Millar" <> | Subject | Re: network traffic doesn't balence well on recent kernels | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:52:31 -0400 |
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I'm generally familiar with TCP/IP's algorithms. The reason I'm asking has more to do with the fact that Windows 98 and older Linux kernels *work better*. I find myself returning to W98 to surf and download because it makes better use of my time...that's not a situation I like...it's just the way it works now....and maybe reporting it will help someone.
Can anyone think of a way that the kernels changed in the last few months that would make "link hogging" worse? In the meantime, I'll try some of Alan's suggestions and report any changes.
jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: ron flory <rjflory@feist.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 7:55 PM Subject: Re: network traffic doesn't balence well on recent kernels
> > 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. > > > > I've noticed this since 2.0.1x, it might be 'normal' yet unexpected > > behavior. > > Link capture is a normal TCP behaviour unfortunately. You can reduce it a bit > on modem links by lowering the tcp window (man route) and/or the driver > queue length (ifconfig ppp0 txqlen 3 I believe for newer ifconfig). > > What actually occurs is that one session starts to drop packets more than the > other, it backs off so the other takes up the rest of the bandwidth, probability > then says the backed off session will tend to fail to get packets through > on retry too > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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