Re: Throughput problems with dummynet and high delays

2006-10-31 Thread Pieter de Boer
Andy Jones wrote: What happens is as the TCP window grows larger (about 3-4MB), the sender spends most of its time processing interrupts (80-90% as reported by top) and throughput peaks at about 300Mbps. I've dug into the dummynet code and I've found that a large amount of time is spent in the

Re: Throughput problems with dummynet and high delays

2006-10-31 Thread Randall Stewart
Andy: Hi, you must be working with Injong :-) At one point I was playing with dummynet in satellite networks. One of the KEY problems I found is that the number of packets you can have in queue, limited to 100, was not nearly enough. This was (at the time) a hardcoded parameter inside both the i

Throughput problems with dummynet and high delays

2006-10-30 Thread Andy Jones
Hi, I'm a researcher at the University of North Carolina trying to simulate certain link characteristics using dummynet pipes in ipfw. Our end goal is to thoroughly test high speed TCP variants in our experimental network in a wide range of situations (which includes varying the delay from 1ms t