HELP!! tcp auto_tuning long fat pipe doesn't work

Hello everybody,
i’m experiencing a very poor performance using a leased line of 155Mbps and a RTT of 270ms between the endpoints… The transfer is by ftp… I’m not able to use more than 3/4 Mbps for single transfering… I already set the tcp Window size of the sender(sles11) and receiver (sles10), setting default tcp_wmem and tcp_rmem equal to BDP ( around 11MB). i set on both sides the max_tcp_rmem and max_tcp_wmem to 16M… i enabled on both sides the Window scaling, the timestamp using, i also increase the txqueuelen of the sender network driver, but nothing change… I tried to disable the autotuning of the receiver, and i tried also to increase the initcwnd of the sender to avoid slow start at the begin…
I also replicated that behaviour using two virtual server and adding a delay by “tc” Linux command…

I capture a dump using wireshark and i tried to analyze that using tcptrace… It seems that sender’s congestion window doesn’t increase even if the receiver advertised window is great almost like BDP …
Could somebody help me to set the optimal setting to permit full-capacity trhoughput of the link using one single transfer?

How can I attach you wireshark dump and the sysctl params of sender/receiver?

Thanks for your great help!

Br.
Paolo

I have only SLED12 machines and this sysctl-settings works fine:

[CODE]# more /etc/sysctl.conf

16 MegaByte TCP-Window Size

net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 33554432
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 33554432[/CODE]

For more information about this sysctl-settings please read:

# man tcp

Test your new sysctl-settings with one of this ftp servers:

ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de Server details: http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/info/

ftp://mirror.switch.ch/ Server details: http://mirror.switch.ch/about.html

ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/ Server details: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/

Here an example “TCP Window Size = 6 MegaByte” => Win=6322176