Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
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@@ -239,6 +239,19 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
+tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER
+ Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows defined in
+ RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit grow of the
+ congestion window on the region where congestion window is larger than
+ tcp_max_ssthresh. A TCP connection with a large congestion window could
+ have its congestion window increased by thousand (or even more)
+ segments per RTT by the traditional slow-start procedure which might be
+ counter-productive to TCP performance when packet losses start to
+ occur. With limited slow-start TCP increments congestion window at
+ most tcp_max_ssthresh/2 segments per RTT when the congestion window is
+ above tcp_max_ssthresh.
+ Default: 0 (off)
+
tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
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