Re: select()/socket has problems under 2.2.x.

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:31:53 +0300 (MSK)


Hello!

> Speaking of which... Could this (an out-of-order condition) be the cause of the
> dropped packets on the sending side which I have seen?

Packets are dropped when they do not fit to output device queue
(On ppp it is 10 packets by default).
You can try to optimize this parameter.

Actually, on slow devices it is better to keep it low to disallow
growth of congestion window.

Alexey Kuznetsov

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