Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 TCP Receive Window Clamping Problem
Issue
- Performance or latency of networking applications diminishes in periods of high load at the receiver, and does not fully recover when the load gets lighter or the traffic slows down.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Application that transmit bursts of small packets over TCP, such as with financial market data or realtime sensor readings in a physical experiment.
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