[Bloat] Measuring latency-under-load consistently

[Jonathan Morton]

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