From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 13:57:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DA537B617 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26764; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA27819; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27814; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:57:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:57:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "'Paul Herman'" , Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Change it to 0... it's 1 by default, changing it to 0 will help your bandwidth. Ken On Tue, 29 May 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > -----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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message