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Doug, The proposed modifications change the TCP buffer values system-wide. The larger values will help buffer higher latency connections and will have no impact for connections not needing that much buffering. mike > Will this modification interfere with any of our other input feeds? > > On Jun 25, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Unidata IDD TIGGE Support wrote: > > > Doug, > > > > Due to the high latency, you should double these values currently > > set on ultrazone; > > > >> ndd -get /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat > > 524288 > >> ndd -get /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat > > 524288 > >> ndd -get /dev/tcp tcp_max_buf > > 8388608 > > > > and restart the LDM. I would expect some improvement, but we may > > need to know > > more about the capacity of various network links along the way. > > > > Waldenio -- I recall you've done quite a bit of tuning on your end > > as well? > > > > BTW - we became aware of a problem in the path through CLARA last > > Friday as > > seen by large numbers of connection failures from UFRJ to our IDD > > cluster. > > Tom tested the path from various points along CLARA and found > > issues transferring > > small amounts of data, as seen by ftp. > > > > mike > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> We're getting high latencies between Brazil and our server. Have you > >> explored this in > >> the past, and do you have any suggestions on how we might improve > >> network > >> performance? > >> > >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_nc?EXP > >> +ultrazone.ucar.edu+LOG > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Doug > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: SOD-321591 > > Department: Support IDD TIGGE > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SOD-321591 Department: Support IDD TIGGE Priority: Normal Status: Closed