Re: Low capped TCP network speeds over the Internet

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:

> gdt%lexort.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) writes:
>
>>There is a TCP feature called "pacing" that attempts to spread out
>>transmissions, but I am really unclear on whether it exists in deployed
>>code.   My guess is no, not really.
>
> We cannot do any kind of fine-grained pacing unless there would be
> hardware support as we lack hires timers.

Makes sense.  My memory of pacing is from a research project to
implement it and measure results that was more than 20 years ago, when
links were lower capacity.