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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for August 2009

TCP performance

Here’s an interesting article on trying to understand TCP performance. It discusses how the TCP flow-control window (receive buffer), window scaling, selective ACKs and some other TCP features/options affect your link’s speed. Of course it’s only a tiny fraction of the total picture that is link performance, but it’s an interesting read. There’s also a […]

Teleportation

I teleported home one night With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie’s heart away And I got Sidney’s leg. — Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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