Guy Romano wrote:
>
> > I know that HP-UX has an effective IW of 2, and I would guess (with no
> > hard data) that most other commercial Unix offerings have that as well
> > or we would have also heard of performance interoperability issues
> > between Win95/NT and those Unixes. I'll not hazard a guess for FreeBSD
> > and Linux.
>
> I don't believe that a stack with an IW=2 will have interoperability
> issues communicating with a stack with IW=1. The initial congestion
That depends on the direction. Clearly, the IW=1 stack in SOlaris did
not work well with the IW=2 stack of Win95/NT - that is what I was using
as a guesstimate that most other popular stacks on the net were
effectively IW=2.
> Just a data point, OSF1 v3.2c by DEC has IW=1.
Cool - any guesstimate what the "Internet weight" of OSF1 v3.2c happens
to be?
>From their SPECweb96 disclosure (see www.specbench.org and the second
quarter '97 results) Digital's 4.0D-5 (Rev 697) OS can have the IW
tuned:
OS Notes
Webserver sysconfigtab tuning:
proc: max-proc-per-user=1024,
maxusers=2048,max-threads-per-user=2048
socket: sominconn=32765, somaxconn=327675 inet: tcbhashsize=16384,
tcp_cwnd_segments=2
rick jones
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