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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: richard <richard@pacdat.net>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Measuring latency-under-load consistently
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:58:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DBE09A9-B0D3-40CB-9816-22B18EA724E8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299968639.31851.30.camel@amd.pacdat.net>


On 13 Mar, 2011, at 12:23 am, richard wrote:

>> However, large TCP windows do consume RAM in both server and client,
>> and with a sufficient number of simultaneous clients, that could
>> theoretically cause trouble.  Constraining TCP windows to near the
>> actual BDP is more efficient all around.
> 
> Yes - have had RAM exhaustion problems on busy servers with large video
> files - major headache.

Sounds like a good reason to switch to Vegas or at least Illinois on those servers.  Those are much less aggressive at growing the congestion window than the default CUBIC.

 - Jonathan


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-12 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-12  0:00 Jonathan Morton
2011-03-12  0:13 ` Rick Jones
2011-03-12  0:45   ` Jonathan Morton
2011-03-12  1:09     ` Rick Jones
2011-03-12  1:44       ` Jonathan Morton
2011-03-12  3:19 ` richard
2011-03-12  3:52   ` Jonathan Morton
2011-03-12  4:04     ` richard
2011-03-12 21:57       ` Jonathan Morton
2011-03-12 22:23         ` richard
2011-03-12 23:58           ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2011-03-12 22:21 ` Fred Baker
2011-03-12 23:03   ` Jonathan Morton
2011-03-13  6:54     ` Fred Baker
2011-03-13 14:24       ` Jonathan Morton

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