Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:18:52 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Ong <peter@haloflightleader.net> Cc: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011223171745.8511p-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <017001c18bff$08a2e8a0$0101a8c0@haloflightleader.net>
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The theory goes that there are a number of TCP improvements, in particular a bugfix involving the newreno algorithm, that should address this specific problem. Once our first release candidate comes out, we'd really appreciate it if you had the chance to test and see if that fixes the problem. It should be out around Jan 5, 2002. If it doesn't, please post to freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org ASAP. (an upgrade on the -STABLE branch should also fix it). Thanks! Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote: > I apologize if I'm off. But it seems you guys are talking about improving > FBSD 4.5 networking performance. > > I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release. It works great, but there is that > one problem Samba. I like Samba because it's functional. I don't know if > it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very erratically. > Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. > > When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well. Samba worked fine, but > also with the same behavior. But it was somewhat more reliable on RH than > FreeBSD. I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although I'm inclined > to say it is Samba. If so, disregard this message. > > When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there. I'd listen to it on > Winamp from my Win98 laptop. It worked fine... no skips. But when I put > it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it passes that > time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if it's readying > the cache faster than it's being transfered over the network. My network is > 10/100Mbits switched. > > The difference is now only the operating system. The box is a P3/450/128MB. > It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD. Now, I'm having that problem. Videos > are even worse. I have some *.mov, and Real movie files, that I must first > download, and then I watch. I can't watch it over the wire. > > This is just my two cents. Maybe 5 cents. Thanks. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> > To: "Nevermind" <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> > Cc: "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; > <freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG>; <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:53 AM > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > > > > > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nevermind wrote: > > > > > Hello, Murray Stokely! > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:30:37PM -0800, you wrote: > > > > > > > There were some problems with the network performance of FreeBSD 4.4 > > > > that were never discovered during the release candidates phase, so I'd > > > > like to take a more pro-active role in getting users to test the > > > > system in more demanding environments. > > > > > > > > A complete list of changes is available in the 4.5-PRERELEASE > > > > release notes, available at : > > > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ > > > > > > Could you, please, include in Relnotes that Java will be included in > > > 4.5? > > > > I have't seen that support actually appear in ports/packages-land as yet, > > but I greatly look forward to that happening. It would probably be > > appropriate to wait until the details have been committed before > > documenting it. > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project > > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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