TCP/HTTP Bug Fedora Core 8 (and 6)
Duncan Berriman
duncan at dcl.co.uk
Wed Nov 28 12:14:32 UTC 2007
You are quite correct.
Putting net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0 into /etc/sysctl.conf and rebooting
works
I'll have to read more and understand the reasons and implications.
Thanks for your help.
Duncan
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tomasz Torcz
> Sent: 28 November 2007 11:05
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> Subject: Re: TCP/HTTP Bug Fedora Core 8 (and 6)
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> Dnia 28-11-2007, śro o godzinie 10:46 +0000, Duncan Berriman pisze:
> > If a TCP/IP connection is made to a certain public web server
> > then the transfer rate on Fedora Core 6 onwards is in the
> > region of 100B/S (bytes per second). On Fedora Core 2 and
> > Fedora Core 4 the speed is in the region of 300KB/s (Kbytes
> > per second).
>
> That sounds like TCP window scaling bug on remote server.
> Newer kernels
> expose it. See http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
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