Subject: Re: Appropriate byte counting, revisited.
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
From: Kentaro A. Kurahone <kurahone@sigusr1.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/05/2006 20:21:42
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:37:26PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > With that said, it may be
> > beneficial to provide the option for using L=3D2*SMSS and have a sysctl
> > for that.
>=20
> Indeed that would be benefical. As long as we don't use this limit
> during slow start as the spec says.

Well, the limit only applies during slowstart.  It can be beneficial to
do something like this since it deals with delayed acking prolonging the
slow start duration[0].  It's just that it needs to be toggleable since
bad things can happen.

--=20
Kentaro A. Kurahone
SIGUSR1 Research and Development

[0]: Writing a huristic to detect if your peer is in slowstart or not,
and enabling/disabling delayed ACKing would be a "intresting" project
for the motivated coder.

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