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Re: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP s

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket?
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:18:03 -0300
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David S. Miller wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:27:19 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:


ok. good. I remember the times when you made jokes about the size
of TCBs in some other OSes. I bet we beat them all now in bloat, but it's good that things are shrinking again.


Nope, Solaris's TCB is still 3 times the size of ours.

BSD's is about the same size, yet they lack most of the
congestion control and ECN functionality we have.

<joke> That doesn't mean we should keep trying to get to their level ;) </joke>

/me goes back to his pile of sk_buff layer header pointers patches :-)

- Arnaldo

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