I have an application communicating with a NetApp server via a TCP connection.
I'm trying to understand how the TCP receive buffer size (on Windows) impacts the system. Initially I thought I'll notice a difference in the Kernel level, but didn't see any substantial change (tested with Process Explorer - original TCP receive buffer is declared to be 32MB, and for testing purposes I enlarged it to 10GB).
Do you have any idea how the receive buffer size impacts the system after all? What are the consequences for a too large buffer size? Does Windows have some limitation for this size? Any way\references to check this?
Thanks in advance!