From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:40:28 +0100 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] rtl8169 gbe slow Topicbox-Message-UUID: 88d793b6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 and obviously a blocking pipe would be a good reason to reduce rwin. the other keyword used often is "flow control". redirecting hget output into /dev/null should be fast enough though, so again, this doesn't matter in our case.