Re: Sender-side SWS avoidance in tcp_sendmsg()

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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:50:32 +0100
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:

> If the problem is win2000/xp not waking up its http client, why one
> PSH per window?  Why not one PSH per N kilobytes or one per second?
> (One per second would be better for web browers over dialup, wouldn't it?)

Because if the window fills up, we'll deadlock since the client
won't drain the data and the receiver will advertize a zero
window which we can't send into.

> Can you point me to a web page with more information about this bug?

It is not documented, Alexey noticed it via packet traces sent to
him years ago.
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