On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> wrote:
> Here's fascinating blog post by Jim Gettys, one of the creators of the > X Window System, and a Bell Labs employee. In it he describes how the > internet is being crippled by excessive buffering. > > https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/whose-house-is-of-glasse-must-not-throw-stones-at-another/ > > Here's the corresponding LWN article. > http://lwn.net/Articles/418918/#Comments > > Thanks for the pointer, that was a very interesting series of blogs. I did some of the experiments he suggested changing buffer sizes. You can see some pretty dramatic effects. Who would have thought that increasing buffer size to decrease packet loss actually increases packet loss and causes TCP to miscalculate RTT. Bill > -- > Galen Seitz > gal...@seitzassoc.com > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
