On: The Ethernet PAUSE frame

[logicallee]

it's gotta be obscure if the Chrome Windows process stops responding, don't you think? (as the article reports).

Or is that just the Chrome team following the letter and the spirit of the law? "if they want a PAUSE by God they'll get one..."

[angry_octet → logicallee]

Chrome or other applications won't be aware of what is happening way down below at layer 2. To layer 3 (TCP) the pause is indistinguishable from severe network congestion.

Just speculating, but the stop/start oscillation in traffic rate could cause code running in chrome, such as a video codec, to exercise parts of its re-buffering code in a way that exposes a bug.

[rasz_pl → angry_octet]

mplayer does same thing on streams when other side abruptly goes away, it hangs for ~5-10 second before closing.