[Bloat] Best practices for paced TCP on Linux?

[Jonathan Morton]

On 7 Apr, 2012, at 8:18 pm, Dave Taht wrote:

> the captures are up at:
> 
> http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/captures/gathering/
> 
> The tcp stream was interestingly periodic...

...and indicates a congestion window growing to a half megabyte.  Ouch.

I used the TCP Optimiser tool from speedguide.net to turn off window scaling on the Windows box.  This forcibly limits the window size to 64K.  It seems to be behaving a lot better after doing that.

 - Jonathan