No problem! Agreed that restart from idle is a little dumb especially with connections that go idle all the time. IMO whatever timer it uses should be in minutes not round trips.
Thankfully newer congestion control algorithms like BBR (which you can enable, though linux currently ships an older version) do not suffer from this and do not go to slowstart.
Thankfully newer congestion control algorithms like BBR (which you can enable, though linux currently ships an older version) do not suffer from this and do not go to slowstart.