Network Working Group Alex McKenzie
RFC #334 BBN
NIC 9927 1 May 1972
Network Use on MAY 8
Vint Cerf of UCLA Network Measurement Center has just indicated
- to us a requirement to carry out certain performance experiments on
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- the network prior to installation of the new IMP software on May 15.
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- These experiments are designed to measure network performance under
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- heavy traffic load to a single site, and thus may cause the network to
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- "lock up" such that _no_ traffic can flow (a problem which the new IMP
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- software is de- signed to prevent). Vint has indicated to us that ARPA
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- regards these experiments as extremely important in spite of the
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- possibility of lockup; we have therefore agreed to assist with the
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- experiments and scheduled them for May 8.
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Although we do not know whether these experiments will cause
- lockup, we suggest that sites do not schedule important network work
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- for Monday, May 8. We apologize for the lateness of this announcement.
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