yum & slow internet

[Benny Amorsen]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> writes:

> If you have more than one system on your network, how can your kernel
> possibly know what is free?

The kernel can back off more aggressively than TCP specifies. It
doesn't take much backing off before the other flows pretty much steal
all the bandwidth. TCP can be quite unfair if routers don't use RED
and/or some kind of fair queueing.


/Benny