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1 IanMcDonald 1 [TCP] can be tuned quite a bit as the defaults don't always work well on things like high speed networks.
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3 There are plenty of resources out on the web giving tuning advice:
4 * This one is pretty good and up to date: http://www-didc.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html
5 * This one is OK but some parts are wrong for newer kernels: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-hisock.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01BoostSocket
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2 IanMcDonald 7 The main thing for end nodes is that your TcpWindow needs to be bigger than the sum of your BandwidthDelayProduct.
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9 Your speed is limited by the size of your packets (check your [MSS]), the loss rate, the [RTT] and how you use Delayed Acks. For an online calculator see: http://wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php
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11 More modern versions of the Linux kernel (since 2.4.17/2.6.7?) have [full autotuning|http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/#Linux] which should take care of most of this for you. If your kernel supports autotuning and it is enabled then
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13 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_moderate_rcvbuf
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15 should show the value 1. If you manually adjust buffer sizes in your program with [setsockopt(2)] then autotuning will be disabled for that connection (not recommended).

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