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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 14:44:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com>
Cc:        bblack@allstor-sw.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105241442160.23713-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <SAK.2001.05.23.mecnhitk@support10>

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Have you looked at the faq's for info on this? I changed a sysctl (1
single sysctl) and my performance went from around 600K per second for
FreeBSD - Win 98 to about 6MB/sec.

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Peter wrote:

> I am having the same damn problem.
> 
> Win to Win == 2.5MB/sec
> FreeBSD to Win = 200kb/sec
> FreeBSD to FreeBSD = 200 - 500 kb/sec.
> 
> This was tested with 30MB file via ftp [ftp server is both on Windows and 
> FreeBSD, tested both ways.]
> 
> Are you using LINKSYS LNE100TX cards by any chance using the
> dc0 driver??
> 
> 
> On 05/23/2001 9:10:13 AM, bblack@allstor-sw.co.uk is quoted as saying:
>  
> 
> . . . .|Please help!
> . . . .|
> . . . .|I am running Samba 2.0.7 on a FreeBSD (4.1) RAID box. Copying files of
> . . . .|approximately 500Kb from a Windoze '98 box is giving absoultely dire
> . . . .|performance, in the region of 500Kb/s.
> . . . .|
> . . . .|On the same network I have run the same test from NT - FreeBSD which gives
> . . . .|about 3.7Mb/s and from Windoze '98 - Linux (running Samba 2.0.7) which
> . . . .|gives around 4Mb/s so it appears the problem is to do with FreeBSD.
> . . . .|
> . . . .|The fact that Win98 - Linux provides decent figures suggests it isn't a
> . . . .|Samba thing which was my first suspicion but I have reached the end of the
> . . . .|road with what to try next.
> . . . .|
> . . . .|Any advice/suggestions would be gratefully received.
> . . . .|
> . . . .|Thanks,
> . . . .|
> . . . .|Ben Black
> . . . .|
> . . . .|
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