[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

Mike Meredith very at zonky.org
Sun Jan 17 16:37:48 CST 2010


On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:05:06 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I've heard people talk about the Linux TCP stack falling down under
> heavy load, but never had it happen to me.  Until today.

Definitely the TCP stack ? 

The reason I ask is that some Linux ethernet drivers are better than
others, and I've seen flakiness from some Linux machines with (cough)
network adapters, but not with (for example) Intel ones (the server
ones by preference).



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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  'I find film very seductive ... like a woman my parents would not
like me to date. She's expensive, inconvenient, and you really can't
know you'll get what you want. But you'll be certain you'll want a
cigarette before the night is out.



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