Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:16:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com> Cc: Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: delayed ACK Message-ID: <20021015115315.U7412-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> In-Reply-To: <3DAAE60E.3010708@expertcity.com>
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Steve Francis wrote: > Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > > > is it recommended to use net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 on the machines with > > heavy network traffic ? > > > If you want to increase your network traffic for no particular reason, > and increase load on your server, then yes. > > Otherwise no. Not true. Although some bugs have been fixed in 4.3, FreeBSD's delayed ACKs will still degrade your performance dramatically in some cases. For now, the best advice I could give is to benchmark your client machine with and without delayed ACKs and see which works best for your environment. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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