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Subject: Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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TCP can only send into a pipe as fast as it can see the
ACKs coming back.  That is how TCP clocks its sending rate,
and latency thus affects that.

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