any idea what the rtt on the link ? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Andres Meyer <andres.meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 00:59 +0100, Andres Meyer wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 15:49 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> > If you use tcptrace to produce xplot graphs of sequence number, >> > you get the attached result. The upper line is the sequence number >> > of the upper bound of the window. >> > >> > It shows the window for the sender is open but is not being used. >> > This means the send window is not configured large enough on the sender. >> > With current Linux kernels, you should not have to configure socket >> > send buffers in the application. It maybe that the application is >> > using setsockopt to set send buffer space but not allowing for enough window. >> >> Thank you for the tip. I also studied this graph (and others) before >> posting. I thought the same thing in the beginning, so I tried setting >> the settings in the /proc/sys/net/ipv4 region in the kernel. I tried >> with iperf and netcat. I even set the window with the -w option to >> 1Mbyte in iperf (client and server), just to see if something would >> change, but nothing did. Do you know another program that for sure does >> not use this setsockopt for testing? > > I also tried with wget (client) and apache2.2 (server), same effect. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
