David Collier-Brown wrote:> I wonder if Daniel S. Riley hit the nail on the head...
> > For high-rate TCP transfers, back to back packets with interface cards
> > that are close to the minimum interpacket gap, you actually expect 50%
> > collisions from the TCP acks colliding with data packets. This limits
> > the transfer rate to about 700 - 800 KB/sec; with UDP and fewer acks,
> > you can get very close to 1 MB/sec.
This was just confirmed, in part, by a commentator
in samba-technical.
It should show up in
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-technical/March2000/
real soon now, entitled "Transportation tuning tips"
(ie, it's about tuning TCP/IP transport)
--dave
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