Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:57:36 +0200 From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcp sendspace Message-ID: <200309181957.39654.ajacoutot@lphp.org> In-Reply-To: <3F69EAB1.1010203@mac.com> References: <3F69E2DF.6090301@lphp.org> <3F69EAB1.1010203@mac.com>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 September 2003 19:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > was a bad idea ? > > Probably not. Good :) > Are you trying to solve a problem or tune network performance, or are you > just asking what happens if you twiddle this particular knob? :-) I'm trying to tune network performance. > There's a formula involving network latency and bandwidth which is > relevant; that, plus the amount of traffic (how many connections) > determines how much RAM the larger network buffer size could/will take up= =2E=20 The boxes I'm talking about have between 512 and 1 Go of RAM. > You haven't told us what the machine is being used for, either-- network > tuning a fileserver talking to clients on the LAN can be quite different > than tuning a webserver feeding clients using 56K modems. Well, I'm building some servers that are not in production yet, but will be= =20 soon, They're all going to be intensively accessed, either with samba shares (ins= ide=20 the LAN --> users homedir and other shares) or http (from optical fiber 2MB= =20 connection) from the internet. Antoine =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/afITY3Hnhkr+5cQRAiauAJ95uOhVn3fgBJaLvILzUY7wfabkVACbBSBH 1EV5Zy+ptPazA7xUAheE4Kc=3D =3DYk+M =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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