On 2007/10/02  , at 18:47, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:25:34 -0700
> lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) wrote:
>
>>> If the server side is the source of the data, i.e, it's transfer  
>>> is a
>>> write loop, then I get the bad behaviour.
>>> ...
>>> So is this a bug or intentional?
>>
>> For whatever it is worth, I believed that we used to get better  
>> performance
>> from the same hardware.  My guess is that it changed somewhere  
>> between
>> 2.6.15-1-k7 and 2.6.18-5-k7.
>
> For the period from 2.6.15 to 2.6.18, the kernel by default enabled  
> TCP
> Appropriate Byte Counting. This caused bad performance on  
> applications that
> did small writes.
Stephen, maybe you can provide me with some specifics here?

Thanks a lot!!
Daniel

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