Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-17 Thread Neil Horman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:51:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running a client/server test app over IPOIB in which the client sends a certain amount of data to the server. When the transmittion ends, the server prints the bandwidth and how much data it received. I can see

Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-16 Thread John Heffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running a client/server test app over IPOIB in which the client sends a certain amount of data to the server. When the transmittion ends, the server prints the bandwidth and how much data it received. I can see that the server reports it received about 60% that

Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-16 Thread eli
BTW, TCP will be significantly faster than UDP because with UDP you incur an extra full context switch on every packet. Could you elaborate on this a bit more? What kind of context switch? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-net in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-16 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:10:08 +0200 (IST) BTW, TCP will be significantly faster than UDP because with UDP you incur an extra full context switch on every packet. Could you elaborate on this a bit more? What kind of context switch? TCP queues and takes care of

Re: UDP packets loss

2006-11-16 Thread Alan
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:51:37 +0200 (IST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eventually slow the whole thing to a rate such all parts can handle. But is there a way to overcome this situation and to avoid packets drop? If this would happen then TCP would work at higher rates as well?? Perhaps increase