On 13 Mar, 2011, at 12:23 am, richard wrote: >> However, large TCP windows do consume RAM in both server and client, >> and with a sufficient number of simultaneous clients, that could >> theoretically cause trouble. Constraining TCP windows to near the >> actual BDP is more efficient all around. > > Yes - have had RAM exhaustion problems on busy servers with large video > files - major headache.
Sounds like a good reason to switch to Vegas or at least Illinois on those servers. Those are much less aggressive at growing the congestion window than the default CUBIC. - Jonathan _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
