From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 13:51:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2259C37B424 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:51:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GE400N0179I0V@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.244]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GE400JB079HBI@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:34:47 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance In-reply-to: To: 'Paul Herman' , Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Herman [mailto:pherman@frenchfries.net] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:05 AM > To: Bill Moran > Cc: Drew Tomlinson; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance > > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > > > I'm pretty green here and have no idea what this is. > Could you point me to > > > a URL, man page, etc. that will expand on this? > > Delayed ACK is good for links that have large RTTs, and you plan on > receiving more data than serving. Delayed ACKs got a little > improvement before 4.3-RELEASE, but I still think for LANs it isn't > necessary and it'd be OK to turn it off. Thank you both for the info. I checked the net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack and it already is set to "1". Are you saying I can set this to "0"? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message