Performance Case Studies

Detailed Case Studies

This section describes some case studies in which alterations to end systems, applications or network elements improved overall performance.

• Scaling Apache 2.x beyond 20,000 concurrent downloads
• SSH buffer sizes
• Experimental 10Gbps Technology Results at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

Short Case Studies

These are brief descriptions of problems seen, and the reasons behind the problems

• Hung transfer - stateful firewall problem
• Sluggish transfer - LSO engine problem
• Linux Traffic Shaping Example

-- AnnRHarding - 20 Jul 2005
-- SimonLeinen - 21 Jul 2006