Re: TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency)

2001-05-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:15:12PM -0500, Samuel Meder wrote: > I'm seeing a similar effect myself. When I use all my available sdsl > bandwidth (say doing a bulk data transfer), DNS lookups will often > time out. This is with the default buffer settings/2.4.4. The problem is that the DNS resolv

Re: TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency)

2001-05-14 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm curious about this effect so I've been trying to find information > on this and while I can find lots of information on the Ethernet > capture effect there doesn't seem to be anything on the TCP capture > effect. Could someone point me at an explanation of this effect? it is exactly the sam

TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency)

2001-05-14 Thread Samuel Meder
Alan Cox wrote: > > causes the earlier started one to survive and the later to > > starve. Running bcp instead of the second (which uses UDP) at > > 11000 bytes per second caused the utilization in both directions > > to go up nearly to 100%. > > > > Is this a normal TCP stack behaviour? > >