> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Les Schaffer wrote:
> > >>>>> ">" == Richard B Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> >
> > >> Linux-2.1.123 gets rid of the long-time TCP Stall that I have
> > >> been seeing for a long-long time. I was so impressed
> > >> downloading the kernel on my PPP link that I have now done it
> > >> three times!
> >
> > ahh, if only this were true.
> >
> > I still get them. i am connected to an ISP who is using Ascend
> > equipment, which someone a few months ago claimed is responsible for
> > some of the stalls and poor download rates.
>
> The Xylogics terminal servers also show the same
> behaviour. The stalls are just as bad as before :(
>
Maybe we are talking about different stalls. The stalls I used to get
caused ftp to stop receiving data for several minutes at a time. This
seems to be gone.
I have always had poor interactive performance over PPP, making
editing nearly impossible with the 1-2 second character delays, etc.
I got used to downloading work, doing the edit locally, then uploading
the result. Interactive performance will probably always be poor because
a single typed character results in a packet with a minimum packet-length
that must be sent, ACked, then the echo results in the same overhead
in reverse.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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