On Feb 23, 2006, at 11:28, Laurent Lagrange wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I tried the below Andy's idea. It works fine. > It is my TCP clients which now slow the traffic. > > But I don't know why the default timeouts are so high. > If the traffic is high, the timeout does not fire. > If the traffic is low, the timeout seems too long (???).
The answer there is simple: stupidity! :) I just didn't carefully test the values for performance when I chose them. I probably also did the math wrong, because I was more concerned about seeing if it worked at all. It's also possible it got set that way to see a measurable difference to prove it was working, and then got left as the default. Rest assured, there was not a deliberate reason. We submitted a patch once this performance issue was discovered.
