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Hi netters,

I hope this topic has not been beaten to death, but I missed any discussions
on this topic, if any...

I am trying to improve the UUCP throughput on my system, so I tried playing
with the packet window size by patching the uucico binary (I believe it
was mentioned on this list).  The original window size is 3 and I patched
it to 7.  I am no guru to the UUCP protocols so I don't really know what
this does.  I observed a nice ~20% improvement in transfer throughput
when communicating with one of my UUCP neighors with the increased window
size, but now only incoming files are transferred.  Outgoing files are
ignored as if they are not there (although they are in fact in the spool
directory and "uustat -a" shows them to be spooled correctly).  I am the
one that always initiate the calls in this case but it doesn't seem to
matter, because the same problem occurs with another site that dials in.
Switching the window size back down to 3 solves the problem, but makes
things slow...

Can someone explain the phenonmenon I have observed?  My modem is a
Hayes V-series Ultra 9600 and the UUCP neighbors have Worldblazers,
Hayes, and U.S. Robotics Courier modems; if that matters.

Thanks in advance...

Thilo.
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