Re: Libre site down, again

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Someone claiming to be a lethal noddle wrote:
> The strange thing is, running a 2.6.16 kernel as I am now,
> tcp_window_scaling is set to 1, but I can access libre just fine.

They changed the calculation of TCP buffer sizes. I think the point was 
to make better use of available memory. If there's plenty of memory, 
then Linux can afford to allocate a large buffer so that the sender can 
keep the pipe full of packets, and a large buffer requires a large scale 
factor. But the larger the scale factor is, the more hindered the 
communication is when these broken boxes mangle it. If a small scale 
factor gets mangled, your buffer will seem smaller than it is but the 
connection can still limp along. If a large scale factor gets mangled, 
the connection freezes completely.

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