On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Rick Jones wrote: > > One question is why the RTO gets so large that it limits failover? > > > > If Linux TCP is working correctly, RTO should be srtt + 2*rttvar > > > > So either there is a huge srtt or variance, or something is going > > wrong with RTT estimation. Given some reasonable maximums of > > Srtt = 500ms and rttvar = 250ms, that would cause RTO to be 1second. > > I suspect that what is happening here is that a link goes down in a trunk > somewhere for some number of seconds, resulting in a given TCP segment being > retransmitted several times, with the doubling of the RTO each time.
But that's a back-off for the retransmissions, the doubling is temporary... Once you return to normal conditions, the accumulated backoff multiplier will be immediately cut back to normal. So you should then be back to 1 second (like in the example or whatever) again... -- i. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
