From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:00:44 -0700
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:16:38 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Ben Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:57 -0700 > > > > > Because these are general utility clusters we run many different > > > programs and so trying to fix this problem in the application is not > > > possible since there are literally hundreds if not thousands of them. > > > > Then why add a socket option setting as your patch does? :-) > > > > I also object to the socket option setting being allowed for > > any user because this can have awful effects if allowed by > > arbitrary users on arbitrary networks. > > Setting a cwnd limit would do the same thing. Not really :-) It would not influence the TCP retransmit timeouts and backoff, although it would influence the congestion window handling during recovery after such timeout based losses. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
