Comment by throwaway132448
3 hours ago
It’s got to the point where I turn off my WiFi now to do performance-sensitive work, because of the boost that killing all this background rubbish gives. Anything I need online I can just offload to my phone while my computer is offline.
The problem with doing that, is that the standard TCP timeout is 60 seconds.
All of a sudden, you are beset with 60-second hangs.
You just gave me flashbacks of mistyping a folder share name on windows and having the whole PC lock up for a minute or two.