Friday, December 2, 2011

Changing the ACK timer can give TCP apps a big performance boost

We tracked down a real pain in the bum problem where we were seeing 200ms delays for no apparent reason. Then we adjusted the Windows ACK timer and bingo... massive performance increase.

Check it out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q328890

2 comments:

NotesSensei said...

What value did you adjust it to?

Adam Osborne said...

Change it to 1.. throughput on one of our apps went up 10X