Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:00:27 -0500 (CDT) From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) To: DougB@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi Message-ID: <200207011600.g61G0RW06589@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3D1EB35C.70F64275_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020629235459.031daf28_mail.Go2France.com@ns.sol.net> <3D1EB35C.70F64275_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>
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In article <3D1EB35C.70F64275_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>, DougB@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > Len Conrad wrote: >> >> Sorry, hackers, I posted this twice in -questions and got no response. >> >> If the problem is newreno, can somebody say how to up just that piece for >> 4.4 so as to be as non-disruptive, non-dice-rolling as possible on this >> otherwise solid machine? > > You can turn off newreno with the sysctl. I put this in /etc/sysctl.conf > on my machines: > > net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it, and what the ramifications of turning it off are? I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p7, and it's on by default. Thanks, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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