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Cc: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>, bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF
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Wouldn't the LOWAT setting be much easier for applications to use if it was 
set in estimated time (ie time it will take to deliver the data) rather 
than bytes?

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On April 22, 2015 2:47:34 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 14:05 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> > On 04/22/2015 02:02 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > Yeah, the real nice thing is TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT added in linux-3.12
> >
> > Don't go telling Dave about that, he wants me to put too much into
> > netperf as it is!-)
>
> Note that one can also set a sysctl, in case netperf author does not
> want to change its baby ;)
>
> echo 131072 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
>
>
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