Subject: Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
       Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Llu, 2003-09-01 at 17:13, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Each ACK that has caused previous delays generally opens up a 64K window
> > so you get bursts of data incoming. A sequence of acks can cause the
> 
> the congestion avoidance shouldn't allow what you say. It sends a few
> packets immediatly (cwnd starts > 1 recently), and that's why
> non-keepalive connections are bad, but after that the congestion window
> will remain low if we drop the packets.

You may trigger fast retransmit patterns. Thats why you have to bend the
window.

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