Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > >> OK. What about making congestion state on TCP and SCTP more visible to >> applications? I seem to recall at least a couple of RFEs open in that >> area. >> >> One of the nice side-effects of this work could be making it possible >> for pfiles(1) to show the congestion state of the open sockets in live >> applications, which I think would go a long way towards making network >> performance problems more observable. > > The new socket options will give applications quite a bit of congestion > related information. The idea of showing additional state via pfiles > came up in a recent discussion, IIRC. We do take observability seriously > and are open to suggestions. It would probably be more efficient to talk > about this once we have a draft design - always easier to lead a > structured discussion off a frame of reference. I hope to have it > published in early December.
Sure; I wasn't asking to discuss the details now. I was just probing around to figure out the scope. +1 -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
