From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:30:50 +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: 88cf1f88-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik: I don't think nowadays we need to limit rwin unless we artificially want to reduce the bandwidth (e.g. in my torrent program, or an rsync that's running in the background and shouldn't use up the whole bandwidth of the slow DSL uplink). in the past it seems to have been used to combat memory limitations of the receiver. but nowadays we have enough memory, so in normal operation rwin should always be fully open.