From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 6 9:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C06037B446 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA66453; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:39:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:39:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Subject: Re: TCP New Reno algorithm In-Reply-To: <200104051637.f35GbnT96821@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > Since upgrading some of our FreeBSD systems to the latest -stable, > we've noticed that our Veritas backup throughput from the upgraded > FreeBSD clients to our Veritas server, a Sun 450, had dropped to > about 3 packets per second. Disabling the TCP New Reno algorithm > (sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.newreno=0) returned our Veritas backup > throughput to about 70 packets per second. I just did a quick test with Veritas NetBackup BusinesServer 3.4 running on NT4 and FreeBSD 3.4-RC using the native FreeBSD NetBackup client. For a particular backup set (about 450MB), with New Reno enabled I get 3404.282KB/sec, and without New Reno I get 3192.508KB/sec. This is a backup to a local disk on the NT4 box, not tape, so tape throughput isn't a limiting factor. Turning off New Reno actually hurt throughput just a little bit. The client and server aren't on the same 100MBit Ethernet network, they're separated by another FreeBSD 3.4-RC (New Reno enabled) box acting as a router. Maybe you're seeing a bad New Reno interaction with Solaris itself? -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message