On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:25:10AM +0000, J K wrote: > 2. In practice though, the draining of sockets is like a FCFS > scheduling discipline!!! > Which ever socket has data to send, will grab a piece of the > TCP sk->sndbuf (16KB) and write it out. If the sndbuf is full, > the process waits a random amount of time (between 2 and 21 > jiffies) then retries again. 16k=~10 packets, while there is a queue of 100 packets. So I think you will still achieve balancing. The *real* experts on this reside on netdev@oss.sgi.com, you may want to ask there Alexey, Andi & DaveM are the real gurus. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO
