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Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog recently read that TCP BBR has significantly increased throughput and reduced latency for connections on Google’s internal backbone networks and google.com and YouTube Web servers throughput by 4 percent on average globally – and by more than 14 percent in some countries. The TCP BBR patch needs to be applied to the Linux kernel.

Make sure that your Linux kernel has the following option compiled as either module or inbuilt into the Linux kernel: You must use the Linux kernel version 4.9 or above.

Type the following command on Linux server:# iperf -s Execute the following on your Linux client:$ iperf -c gcvm.backup -i 2 -t 30

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