[ILUG] link of the day: System Tuning Info for Linux Servers

[Fergus Donohue]

To services delivered over a lossy network SACK will make a large improvement.
I did a search on SACK and it seems that in the early days there was a bug in
the Linux implementation - hence probably the recommendation.

Fergus.

Paul J Collins wrote:

> >>>>> "DM" == David Murphy <drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie> writes:
>
>     DM> Quoting <6uu23w96ft.fsf at zork.zork.net>
>     DM> by Paul J Collins <sneakums at zork.net>:
>     >> Network performance, or system performance?
>     DM> The network is the computer.
>
> Regurgitated Sun propaganda does not an answer make.
>
> To rephrase for the hard of thinking: do selective acknowledgements
> improve network performance/throughput with a cost in terms of time
> spent in the kernel doing the SACK-related calculations?
>
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