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To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org>
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:51:42 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 20:09:26 +0200
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Subject: Re: Does newreno work as designed ? 
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In message <200307041349.h64DnuVu012858@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>, Jeffrey Hsu wr
ites:
>  > I'm sitting on a ISDN line right now, and I thought the newreno issues
>  > had been solved, but by disabling newreno I get a distinctly better
>  > web-surfing experience.
>
>NewReno is a sender-side only algorithm and web-surfing is mostly a
>receiver-side experience. If you gather some quantitative numbers
>on bulk transfers or a packet trace, I'd be happy to look at them for you.

Disabling newreno gives a tangible reduction in stalled http requests
for me.

I'll try to get a packet trace for you.

>  http://people.freebsd.org/~hsu/tmp/explicitnewreno.diff
>and see if it affects your web-surfing experience.

If this is the patch you mailed me yesterday, I'm already running 
with it.

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