resending: slow start triggered if recv window full on packet loss?

["somebody nodoby" <despista000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: somebody nodoby <despista000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:04 AM
Subject: slow start triggered if recv window full on packet loss?
To: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx


Hi

I'm trying to understand one behaviour of TCP I cannot explain

analyzing some traces, I find that when there is a fast-retransmit and during
that period the receive window is filled, when the sender receives a window
update and resumes the sending activity, it resumes using slow start, or that is what it looks like:

http://sites.google.com/site/despista000/index-html     (tcptrace plot)

does my description matches the behaviour shown in the plot?

comments appreciated

Thanks