From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 26 0:11:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337D937B4CF; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9Q7AvU35787; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:10:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Hay Cc: jwd@FreeBSD.ORG (John W. De Boskey), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp vs. nfs install times In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2000 08:37:37 +0200." <200010260637.e9Q6bbK53295@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:10:57 +0200 Message-ID: <35785.972544257@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200010260637.e9Q6bbK53295@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>, John Hay write s: >> Try disabling newreno in both ends: >> >> sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 >> >> On my laptop with Wavelan cards this increases TCP throughput by a >> factor of 5. > >Yes, that makes a HUGE difference. I only did it on the current box. >Internat is still running 4.x and don't have it. I think it made more >than a factor of 5 difference here. :-) I sent packet traces to yan some time back, but have not heard from him since. I wonder if we should disable newrene for now... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message