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DYODE 1.4.2

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@github-actions github-actions released this 19 Oct 15:26
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Fixed

  • Large folder transfers failing part-way (from about 1 GB, at high
    bitrate) on receiving boxes with plenty of RAM and an encrypted (LUKS)
    disk. The cause was disk writeback, not the network. Linux wrote ~30 s of
    received data at once, and that burst stalled udp-receiver long enough to
    overflow its socket buffer, so udpcast aborted the file. install.sh now
    writes /etc/sysctl.d/90-dyode-receive.conf on receiving boxes (v1, and v2
    --side out), with continuous writeback (vm.dirty_background_bytes) and a
    larger UDP receive buffer (net.core.rmem_*). Verified in the field: 1.3 GB
    and 5 GB transfers at 900 Mbit/s that had always failed now arrive with
    identical SHA-256. --tuning-only adds it to an existing box; --no-tuning
    skips it.

Changed

  • A stalled transfer's error now says where the packets went, from the
    kernel's UDP RcvbufErrors counter. "N UDP packets were dropped on this box
    because a receive buffer was full" means the receiver stalled (the case
    above). "No receive-buffer overflow on this box" means the packets were lost
    before reaching it (NIC, cabling, diode).

Documentation

  • CAVEATS.md rewritten with the confirmed cause. The 1.4.1 entry blamed the
    receive-side NIC; swapping it changed nothing. The entry now has the field
    results, the diagnostic procedure that found the cause, the fix and how to
    undo it, and other tuning for other hardware.