On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:47:30PM +0530, Saurabh Bansal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It has been more than a week since I posted this query to the LINUX
> group and haven't heard anything from the group-side in this context.
> Is my query under processing/observation OR something else??
Slipped in between spam-floods, or something...
> Hope to get some positive response from your side this time!
> Thanks And Regards
> Saurabh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Saurabh Bansal
> To: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:26 PM
>
> Hi all,
>
> I did this experiment with the a set of two processes behaving as
> a sender/receiver set on the same Linux machine. What the experiment was
> that---
>
> "The sender has to send some fixed-size (20 bytes) mesgs to the
> receiver but the receiver has not to pick-up anyone of them."
>
> What has been observed is, TCP buffers the first 32 messages into the
> receive socket queue of receiver, AND THEN it stops sending ack's for
> next mesg. As a result, the sender keeps on trying to send the 33rd
> mesg, but gets no ack's and connection gets down within 15-20 minutes.
Are you sure you are emptying the receiver socket when some
new data arrives ?
> Another important observations about this experiment are :
>
> 1) These two processes were running on the same Linux system with
> kernel version 2.2.xx. This problem doesn't come with Linux-kernel
> 2.4.xx.
I recall having seen this kind of problems in 2.1/2.2 series,
possibly a bug-fix was added in late 2.2 to restore earlier
behaviour in 2.0...
I had implemented a problem circumvention in one of my software
suites by making the socket non-blocking, and adding proper
select() calls.
> 2) If these processes are run on different Linux m/c's with kernel
> 2.2.xx, the problem doesn't appear.
Quite so.
> 3) The socket APIs used for sending/receiving mesg are send()/recv().
> 4) The problem has no relevance with the size of mesg. I have seen the
> same behavior with 1-byte mesg to 1k-byte mesg.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is any bug/limitation with the Linux-kernel
> 2.2.xx in comparison to kernel 2.4.xx in the above problem-context??
I faintly recall something which might be what you are describing.
> Saurabh Bansal
/Matti Aarnio
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