From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 13:58:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net [24.141.119.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430BA37B424 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4TL1ZN09645; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:01:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:01:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "'Paul Herman'" , Bill Moran , Subject: RE: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010529170034.G9603-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> 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 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"? Yup. As the superuser, just do a sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message