Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.

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David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
02 Feb 2003 21:14:53 -0800

TCP can only send into a pipe as fast as it can see the
ACKs coming back. That is how TCP clocks its sending rate,
and latency thus affects that.

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