From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:46:58 -0700
> Also, does the congestion window "time out" or does it decay?
The modification made to the cwnd is indeed a decay function,
but the event is a time out, and it is also termed a restart
in other writings and contexts.
I
From: Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:09:52 -0700
> Nice, thanks for the heads-up. I'll pass the notice on to the guys who
> were asking about this in that thread.
Which Wall Street brokerage firm was it? :-)
That's basically who wants this stuff, people doing financial
David Miller wrote:
> Bringing back up this old topic:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=114564962420171&w=2
>
> I've decided to add this tunable to the net-2.6.18 tree, patch below.
Nice, thanks for the heads-up. I'll pass the notice on to the guys who
were asking about
+tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
+ If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
+ window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
+ the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
+ be timed out after an idle period.
+ Default
