Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:55:31 +0100 From: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Equitable Sharing between TCP Sockets Message-ID: <200408211355.31973.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200408211346.44540.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <200408211346.44540.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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On Saturday 21 August 2004 13:46, R. W. wrote: > I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to > have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and > I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under > windows 98. > > Under windows each tcp socket would tend to receive at about the same > rate, and intermittent, interactive applications would quickly gain > their fair share. Under FreeBSD a couple of sockets at a time tend to > hog most of the bandwidth, and interactive applications get frozen > out. I don't know what Windows is doing right, but I'm guessing it > has some kind collective management of tcp window sizes, probably > tied-in with the slow-start algorithm. > > Is there any relevant setting I can alter in FreeBSD 5.x to improve > it's behaviour? Sorry, I sent two copies of this by mistake, when KMail crashed, please reply to the other.
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