Re: 2.6.17: slow (as hell) tcp inbound transfers

[Vincent Vanackere]

On 6/19/06, Brice Figureau <brice+lklm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First: please CC: me as I'm not subscribed to the list.
>
> Now to the problem: I just finished the installation of a brand new
> 2.6.17 on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 which was running 2.6.16.19 really fine,
> and I'm encountering a strange issue.
>
> It seems that TCP inbound transfers (using either curl, or scp) are
> really slow except when issued on our gigabit LAN.

Could you try the following to see if it cures your problem ?

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

Vincent
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