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November 19, 2008

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TCP window scaling, or zomg the Internet works for me again

Sites such as aircanada.com, pcfinancial.ca, and (horror of horrors!) torontopubliclibrary.ca had gotten _unbearably_ slow on Linux.

Here’s how I fixed it (as root):

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

I love you, Ubuntu forums.

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/5346

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