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- Network Working Group John E. Kreznar
- Request For Comments: 19 SDC
- 7 October 1969
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- Two Protocol Suggestions to Reduce Congestion at Swap-Bound Nodes
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- There is a wide variance in swap rates between core and auxiliary store
- among the HOST systems to be nodes in the ARPA IMP network. The slower
- of these, of which our 360/50 system with 2303 drump swap store is an
- example, might improve the utility of the network not only for
- themselves but for all nodes if the two protocol suggestions of this
- note were to be adopted.
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- 1. HOST control of ordering of IMP-to-HOST traffic. IMP-HOST protocol
- now calls for delivery of messages from IMP to HOST in the order in
- which the IMP received them. This may lead to wasted swapping if,
- for example, the IMP has messages for its HOST's timeshare users A
- and B, in that order, at a time when user B is in HOST core. B
- would have to be swapped out, A in, and the first message accepted--
- only to discover that now A must be swapped out and B back in again.
- If the HOST could a) read the IMP's queue of waiting messages and b)
- accept them in the order it found most effective, then a new
- mechanism for improvement of network efficiency would be at hand.
- Clearly this change would have an impact on BBN's IMP software.
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- 2. Core-to-core transfers between HOSTS. At another level, perhaps not
- involving HOST-IMP protocol or IMP software changes, is a HOST-HOST
- protocol wherein cooperating HOSTS agree to lock appropriate
- programs in core for the duration of a multi-message file transfer
- on an auxiliary connection. This could greatly reduce the time to
- transfer such a file to and from a swap-bound HOST. Unfortunately,
- the numbers mitigate possible advantages of this approach to some
- extent: if we assume a 50 kilobit/sec line and support further that
- it is dedicated at 100% efficiency to this transfer (which may
- require slightly different handling of RFNMs in this case) this
- comes out to just over 6 8-kilobit messages per second. It may be
- impolitic in a timeshare environment to lock a single program in
- core for more than about 2 seconds. If this is the case, then the
- method would be applicable only for the rather limited range of file
- sizes of 2-16 messages. Nevertheless, the time to move a large file
- could be so greatly enhanced by this approach that I think it
- deserves consideration.
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- 1. Abhi Bhushan, Proj. MAC 10. Jerry Cole, SDC
- 2. Steve Crocker, UCLA 11. John Kreznar, "
- 3. Ron Stoughton, UCSB 12. Dick Linde, "
- 4. Elmer Shapiro, SRI 13. Bob Long, "
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- 5. Steve Carr, Utah 14. Reg Martin, "
- 6. John Haefner, RAND 15. Hal Sackman, "
- 7. Paul Rovner, LL 16. C. Weissman, "
- 8. Bob Khan, BB & N 17. Marty Bleier, "
- 9. Larry Roberts, ARPA
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Alex Portnoy 1/97 ]
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