the TCP MSS resource exhaustion commit

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Fri Jan 9 11:37:20 PST 2004


On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, 20:35+0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, 11:39-0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I guess my basic worry in this conversation is that fundamentally, the
> > > rate detection and "stop" approach is based on a common case heuristic:
> > > "Most well behaved applications don't...".  Unfortunately, I have the
> > > feeling we're going to run into a lot of exceptions, and while we can
> > > improve the heuristic, I can't help but wonder if we shouldn't disable the
> > > heuristic by default, and provide better reporting so that sites can tell
> >
> > Seconded.  It will be a major PITA if we ship 5.2-R with "broken"
> > TCP/IP.
>
> I committed it with default to off for 5.2-R (the disconnect part).

Great, thanks!

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