On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:25:34 -0700
lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) wrote:

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> > 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 Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
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