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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Why would a Sun take 1.5 seconds to retransmit a missed packet?
- Message-ID: <184841@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:34:04 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
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- In article <BARNETT.93Jan7091846@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
- >I am examing some data collected from a medical network, and noticed
- >some unusual timings.
- >
- >A Sun is transmitting large files (3.5Mbytes average) to an archive
- >system while receiving images from a scanner.
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- Transmitting using what protocol? FTP, NFS copy or what?
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- >
- >Packets are missed by the archive system, so the Sun has to retransmit
- >the missed packets. I have noticed large delays (0.5 - 1.5 seconds)
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- Those are pretty typical numbers for TCP layer time-outs...
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- >
- >Why would there be such a long delay? I would expect the data is in
- >mbufs, so the time to resent the missed packets should be small.
- >From the timing it looks like the data was occasionally on a disk.
- >If we wanted to remove these conditions, am I correct in assuming the
- >sending system needs more RAM or perhaps more buffers?
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- If this is FTP, you'd probably be better off getting rid of the
- fatal collisions on the net.....unless you can set the time-outs
- to a very small number (very dangerous, but....)
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