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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 23:11:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcp sendspace/recvspace
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011052310250.86760-100000@titanic.medinet.si>
In-Reply-To: <200011052202.OAA24207@implode.root.com>

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>    I've been messing around with the net.inet.tcp.sendspace and 
> net.inet.tcp.recvspace parameters on ftp.freesoftware.com and have found
> that there is a significant performance improvement when increasing these
> to 32768 bytes. Apparantly there are enough systems out there with higher
> window maxes that it really does make a difference. By significant 
> improvement, I mean about a average of a 20% increase in Mbps per user,
> and this was just the change over a 30 minute period with lots of connections
> still using the old 16K values.
>    Any objections to increasing the defaults in FreeBSD to 32K?

I actually wanted to suggest the same some time ago. Some time ago I was
trying to find out why a certain Linux box can download at much higher speed
over a satellite link than a FreeBSD box. Well, the default TCP window size in
Linux is higher. Increasing it on FreeBSD, more than doubled the transfer
speed.

Blaz Zupan,  Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325



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