Re: TCP-Protection is really a pain...

[Christian Schmid <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Several users complain about downloads stalling at 99% as well... I was unable 
to solve this issue.

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Christian Schmid wrote:
>
> > btw: Another problem I am experiencing is that downloads suddenly 
> > break in speed from 360 kb/sec to 8-12 kb/sec. 5 seconds later they 
> > stall completely. But the interesting part is, that the send-queue is 
> > completely full (checked with a grep in netstat). This looks like as 
> > if the receiver is just too slow. But this is not the case. That makes 
> > it rather funny. The receiver is waiting with an empty pipe but linux 
> > doesn't send. What could this be?
>
>
> With recent kernels, I've noticed that my browser progress bar will 
> download about 98% of a page, then stall for several seconds, then 
> complete.
> Very strange.  Haven't investigated it at all, though.
>
>     Jeff