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Date:      Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:11:42 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi 
Message-ID:  <57969.1025557902@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2002 14:07:21 PDT." <3D20C489.5040108@tenebras.com> 

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In message <3D20C489.5040108@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both
>> -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance.
>> 
>> I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very
>> good test-bed for this issue.
>
>Wireless breaks a lot of "optimizations," doesn't it?  Congestion control
>assumes that packet loss is due to congestion, and less than 1% of loss
>is due to damage -- quite the opposite of 802.11(b) in an urban
>environment -- cordless phones, microwaves, etc.

newreno is not sold as being a significant pessimization in some cases.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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