its sending window size 0, so i think that absolves the nic, right?

On Oct 17, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote:

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> On 10/17/2012 05:22 PM, Andrew Hume wrote:
>> screwed by linux again. sigh.
>> 
>> so apparently i am overloading my pathetic linux system with too
>> much tcp/ip traffic. is there any way to detect this while (or
>> before or after) it is happening? of course no error messages are
>> emitted. but might there be some other thing buried away somewhere,
>> like /proc?
> 
> Are you sure this is a TCP/IP issue and not a NIC driver problem? I've
> seen some shoddy NIC drivers (*cough*Realtek*cough*Broadcom*cough*)
> fail under high load, with the symptoms being the interface ceasing to
> respond without any reported errors.
> 
> Skylar
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