[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Mike Meredith]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:05:06 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I've heard people talk about the Linux TCP stack falling down under
> heavy load, but never had it happen to me.  Until today.

Definitely the TCP stack ? 

The reason I ask is that some Linux ethernet drivers are better than
others, and I've seen flakiness from some Linux machines with (cough)
network adapters, but not with (for example) Intel ones (the server
ones by preference).



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