Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-16 Thread Nik Koracek
] Help understanding results from a single TCP session You were getting more bandwidth than expected because Linux (and other OSes) will automatically increase the TCP window size. Google for tcp_moderate_rcvbuf, for example. One way to actually get the window sizes you expect is to use the -w

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-14 Thread Andrew Gallatin
You were getting more bandwidth than expected because Linux (and other OSes) will automatically increase the TCP window size. Google for tcp_moderate_rcvbuf, for example. One way to actually get the window sizes you expect is to use the -w argument to iperf. Note that linux will double what you

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-14 Thread Mohammad Hajjat
ng the >>> results that I did. I would have expected to get 1.265Mbps with the test >>> setup the way I described. >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I would like to understand how I was getting 65Mbps+ on that 160ms RTT >>> link with those default window size

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-14 Thread Upendra K
gt;> ** ** >> >> Cheers, >> >> ** ** >> ---------- >> >> *From:* Mohammad Hajjat [mailto:haj...@purdue.edu] >> *Sent:* Monday, 14 October 2013 11:00 AM >> *To:* Nik Koracek >> *Cc:* Mohammad Hajjat; iperf-users &

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-13 Thread Mohammad Hajjat
gt; > Cheers, > > ** ** > -- > > *From:* Mohammad Hajjat [mailto:haj...@purdue.edu] > *Sent:* Monday, 14 October 2013 11:00 AM > *To:* Nik Koracek > *Cc:* Mohammad Hajjat; iperf-users > > *Subject:* Re: [Iperf-users] Help unde

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-13 Thread Nik Koracek
: Nik Koracek Cc: Mohammad Hajjat; iperf-users Subject: Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session I see, why can't you just increase iperf's window size? I had experiments where I had to set the window size in iperf to 16 MB to get an optimal bandwidth.

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-13 Thread Mohammad Hajjat
rdue.edu] > *Sent:* Monday, 14 October 2013 12:18 AM > *To:* nkora...@tpg.com.au > *Cc:* iperf-users > *Subject:* Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP > session > > ** ** > > But your server's window size isn't 25 KB, is it? >

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-13 Thread Nik Koracek
understanding results from a single TCP session But your server's window size isn't 25 KB, is it? Also, what is it in specific that you want to explain? I'm sorry I lost track :P On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:46 AM, wrote: Hi All, I was troubleshooting a throughput issue

Re: [Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-13 Thread Mohammad Hajjat
But your server's window size isn't 25 KB, is it? Also, what is it in specific that you want to explain? I'm sorry I lost track :P On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:46 AM, wrote: > Hi All, > > ** ** > > I was troubleshooting a throughput issue recently on an international > 300Mbps link which had

[Iperf-users] Help understanding results from a single TCP session

2013-10-13 Thread nkoracek
Hi All, I was troubleshooting a throughput issue recently on an international 300Mbps link which had a RTT of ~160ms. I have copied the output below from testing a single TCP session between two linux servers at either endpoint. I have the output from two tests from the perspective of