[Users] TCP packets lost?

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:55:43AM +0000, Max Deineko wrote:
> My first guess would have been that when the server is busy serving an
> expensive request, the tcp rcv buffer would get full and packets would
> get dropped.  But wouldn't tcpdump not be able to see them then?
> 
> Any help would be highly appreciated,

http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=21592

My theory is that when the (receive buffer size / current connections)
is too small for the window size, then kernel gets itself into a state
where it's impossible to recover a connection.

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