problems achieving decent throughput with latency.

Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:38:02 -0800

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I am testing my latency-insertion tool, and I notice that tcp will not use
all of the available bandwidth if there is any significant amount of latency
on the wire.

For example, with 25ms latency in both directions, I see about 8Mbps
bi-directional throughput.

If I lower that to 15ms, I see 12Mbps bi-directional throughput.

I see 27Mbps at 5ms.

Here is the /proc/net/tcp output at 5ms latency.

machine demo2
13: 050302AC:80EB 070302AC:80EB 01 0005900C:0002012E 01:00000016 00000000 0 0 578943 3 c6628a80 22 4 1 45 -1

machine demo1
11: 070302AC:80EB 050302AC:80EB 01 00010DDB:00000000 01:00000014 00000000 0 0 513094 3 c62c5080 21 4 1 45 -1

Any ideas why it is so slow at the higher latencies? Any other info
I can gather to help determine the cause?

(UDP does not experience this slowdown, so I believe my latency
insertion tool is working as designed, but it's always possible it is
to blame...)

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>       <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
President of Candela Technologies Inc      http://www.candelatech.com
ScryMUD:  http://scry.wanfear.com     http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear




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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:13:01 -0800
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<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">I am testing my latency-insertion tool, and I notice that tcp will not use
all of the available bandwidth if there is any significant amount of latency
on the wire.


For example, with 25ms latency in both directions, I see about 8Mbps
bi-directional throughput.


If I lower that to 15ms, I see 12Mbps bi-directional throughput.


I see 27Mbps at 5ms.


Here is the /proc/net/tcp output at 5ms latency.


machine demo2
   13: 050302AC:80EB 070302AC:80EB 01 0005900C:0002012E 01:00000016 00000000     0        0 578943 3 c6628a80 22 4 1 45 -1


machine demo1
   11: 070302AC:80EB 050302AC:80EB 01 00010DDB:00000000 01:00000014 00000000     0        0 513094 3 c62c5080 21 4 1 45 -1




Any ideas why it is so slow at the higher latencies?  Any other info
I can gather to help determine the cause?


(UDP does not experience this slowdown, so I believe my latency
insertion tool is working as designed, but it's always possible it is
to blame...)





-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>       <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
President of Candela Technologies Inc      http://www.candelatech.com
ScryMUD:  http://scry.wanfear.com     http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear




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