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That is very interesting! What exactly do you mean with "completely stalled connections"? Do you mean, that the sending side is queueing up to-be-send message
by xaedes 6y ago
That is very interesting!
What exactly do you mean with "completely stalled connections"?
Do you mean, that the sending side is queueing up to-be-send messages and can't clear the queue because it is working on correcting packet losses all the time, so the queue will just grow and never shrink?
Do you recall at which % of packet loss this behaviour started?
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- jusssi 6y agoStalled as in, sender has data to send, receiver is ready to receive, but the transfer makes no progress or proceeds very slowly. I can't quote a number for the drop percentage, honestly I've forgot. Discovering the limit was a side effect, we were simply looking to test how a piece of software would behave over a bad connection. I just remember being surprised that everything just stopped when I put in packet loss that wasn't anywhere near 100%. My since-then-adjusted expectations would put any double digit percentage (yes, starting from 10%) of random packet loss as unusable conditions for TCP.