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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 03:23:45 +0100
From:      Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>
To:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc:        Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, jc@irbs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <20011130032345.A23415@fasterix.frmug.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011129204225.A63957@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from Leo Bicknell on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:42:25PM -0500
References:  <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011129004234.A16101@exuma.irbs.com> <20011130010354.A21307@fasterix.frmug.org> <20011129184414.F522@twincat.vladsempire.net> <20011130022547.A21889@fasterix.frmug.org> <20011129204225.A63957@ussenterprise.ufp.org>

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:42:25PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> *grumble*  I'll try to avoid my tirade.  16K _will cause problems for
> virtually all users_.  You can do the math and see it won't keep a T1
> full across country.  

I can't reproduce this result, 16K fills a T1 for 11 ms, which is
22000 km (at 2/3 of light speed), enough to get halfway round the
earth...

> This default _really_ needs to be moved to 32k, with an increase in

I'm not sure it is necessary. Remember that you can always use
SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF to get bigger buffer sizes, bulk transfer tools
can always set it explicitly to 64K if they like. For interactive
tools like telnet or ssh, increasing the default size is not really
useful.

Interestingly enough, ftpd does set SO_SNDBUF, but from a quick
glance at the code ftp doesn't seem to set SO_RCVBUF, and neither
does fetch.

Pierre

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