Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 15:34:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, hawkeyd@visi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi Message-ID: <3D20D8DE.2D07022D@mindspring.com> References: <20020701134833.E24940-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>
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Doug Barton wrote: > > I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and > > Matt Dillon posted patches? > > Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about > reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's broken now, and in my > experience, turning it off makes the system "work better." > > I agree that it should be fixed in the long term, but it ain't gonna be me > that fixes it. Then use Dillon's patches, instead of just turning it off. Your anecdotal experience with "works better" is just that -- anecdotal. It doesn't hold for the general case. I guess the problem is that the patches are not committed to the version of FreeBSD you are using, and you are unwilling to upgrade, and unwilling to go look where I tell you to go look? This was only 7 months ago, people! For those people who are unable to search list archives themselves, because they don't know how to ask search engines questions, or whatever, here is a reference to Dillon's patch: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=881527+0+archive/2001/freebsd-hackers/20011202.freebsd-hackers Now *QUIT* turning off NewReno, it's *not* doing what you *think* it's doing, and doing something without understanding why it *appears* to work is as bad as waving a dead chicken over the server to keep away denial of service attacks! Sheesh! -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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