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Credit should go to the Google "IW10" team, which did the hard work of testing this over years and (even harder) patiently convincing people one by one that thi
by aristus 15y ago
Credit should go to the Google "IW10" team, which did the hard work of testing this over years and (even harder) patiently convincing people one by one that this is a good idea.
I caution against fiddling with this number too much. Bandwidth-constrained users, and possibly mobile users, might be hurt with a too-large initcwnd.
http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html http://code.google.com/speed/protocols/tcpm-IW10.html
- douglashunter 15y agoYes, tons of credit due there. In my post (http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=74 http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=74) I linked to Jonathan Corbet's coverage (http://lwn.net/Articles/427104/ http://lwn.net/Articles/427104/) of the topic on LWN, which is also a good jumping-off point for reading on the topic.