TCP bandwidth reduces under memory pressure in RHEL9

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • TCP bandwidth reduces under memory pressure in RHEL9, if we flush the cache we get better bandwidth but after some time bandwidth reduces again
  • Reduced network throughput when downloading a large file in a cgroup with a memory limit

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 below kernel-5.14.0-284.34.1.el9_2 version
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 below kernel-5.14.0-70.75.1.el9_0 version

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