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Date:      Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:06:00 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        John-David Childs <freebsd@nterprise.net>
Cc:        RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: changing TCP window size ? 
Message-ID:  <20020305220600.069E65D07@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Mar 2002 14:27:32 MST." <1015363653.14114.48.camel@lohr> 

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> From: John-David Childs <freebsd@nterprise.net>
> Date: 05 Mar 2002 14:27:32 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> Recently, while trying to optimize an FTP server's performance during
> the 4.4-STABLE network code transition (i.e. when network performance
> really sucked ;-), I found the following sysctl variables handy:
> 
> net.inet.tcp.sendspace
> net.inet.tcp.recvspace
> 
> 
> These values can be changed "on the fly" with sysctl -w.  Whether they
> actually change a running stream (or just future ones) I don't know.

They take effect immediately for all new TCP connections.

Also they have been increased to more reasonable values in 4.5 (32K
and 64K, as I recall).

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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