Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:35:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:35:36 -0500 Received: from cosxlat13.coserv.com ([209.223.12.13]:43282 "EHLO twu.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:35:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:35:35 -0600 (CST) From: Jessica Blank To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Slow start -- Linux vs. NT -- it's time to acknowledge the problem! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello esteemed kernel hackers: As you doubtless know, NT and BSD both have a broken slow-start implementation. As you may not know, when you try having a Linux box co-exist on a network with a Windows box, this seems to cause the Windows box to CROWD OUT the Linux box on the network. There is a fix to Solaris for this-- or a "workaround", I should say: http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/tcp.slowstart.html THERE IS NO FIX TO LINUX FOR THIS. At least, not as far as I could find-- and I just got done Web-searching for a solid 15 minutes, finding MULTIPLE references to the Solaris workaround in the process. It is high time this problem is acknowledged and FIXED. I am forced to share a network with a bunch of NT servers, some of which get plenty of traffic-- enough so that they manage to crowd out my machine to the tune of 600ish ms ping times to the Linux box versus only **70** (!!!!!!) to the Windows box. THESE MACHINES ARE ON THE SAME NETWORK, but the Linux box is as sluggish, latency-wise, as telnetting into a box on a MODEM-- whereas the Windows box, where latency isn't even as important (no one telnets into them), is nice and zippy. I do not want to have to move to Solaris. Please, how can this problem be solved? PLEASE CC ME ANY SOLUTION(S) DISCUSSED! --Jessica ========================================= J e s s i c a L e a h B l a n k ----------------------------------------- Programmer * Unix Sysadmin * Web Geek jessica@jessl.org -- cell@jessl.org -`-,-{@ http://www.jessl.org/ @}-,-`- ========================================= - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/