Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:01:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: "'Paul Herman'" <pherman@frenchfries.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance Message-ID: <20010529170034.G9603-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AFA1D@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Herman [mailto:pherman@frenchfries.net] > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:05 AM > > To: Bill Moran > > Cc: Drew Tomlinson; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance > > > > > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm pretty green here and have no idea what this is. > > Could you point me to > > > > a URL, man page, etc. that will expand on this? > > > > Delayed ACK is good for links that have large RTTs, and you plan on > > receiving more data than serving. Delayed ACKs got a little > > improvement before 4.3-RELEASE, but I still think for LANs it isn't > > necessary and it'd be OK to turn it off. > > Thank you both for the info. I checked the net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack and it > already is set to "1". Are you saying I can set this to "0"? Yup. As the superuser, just do a sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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