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Re: Limited Internet speeds caused by inappropriate socket buffering in function fdsock (winsup/net.cc)


Hi Daniel,

On Jan 11 16:38, Daniel Havey wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> I can see your email on the archive, but, I never received it in my
> gmail account (not even in a spam folder).  I think the Internet ate
> your message.

No, I only sent the reply to the list.  It's customary in the Cygwin
mailing lists not to CC the original poster, unless the poster requests
it.  I CCed you now, of course.

> Yes Windows :).  I'm the Program Manager for Windows 10 transports and
> IP.  Anything in layers 4 or 3.

Cool.  I'm glad for any input from "upstream" :)

> We can help you with network stack in
> the current release of Windows 10.  Downlevel is more difficult.  I'm
> not sure about the answer to your question on the size of wmem.  I
> don't think that there is a static value that will work in all cases
> since Windows TCP will send 1 BDP worth of data per RTT.  If the BDP
> is large then the static value could easily be too small and if the
> BDP is small then the static value could easily be too large.  It will
> take some digging to figure out what the best practice is.  I will do
> some digging and let you know the results.

I'm really looking forward to it!

> In the mean time I will apply your recommendations to my patch and repost it.

Same here.   Thanks a lot for fixing another of those pesky "Cygwin is
slow" problems :)))


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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