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

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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