Re: bizarre network timing problem

From: Felix von Leitner
Date: Fri Nov 02 2007 - 19:23:47 EST


Thus spake Rick Jones (rick.jones2@xxxxxx):
> Past performance is no guarantee of current correctness :) And over an
> Ethernet, there will be a very different set of both timings and TCP
> segment sizes compared to loopback.

> My guess is that you will find setting the lo mtu to 1500 a very
> interesting experiment.

Setting the MTU on lo to 1500 eliminates the problem and gives me double
digit MB/sec throughput.

Felix
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