From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 1 15:44:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9066237B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:44:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A18943E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g61MhvR00902; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g61MhuFt026733; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:43:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mike Silbersack , , Subject: Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi In-Reply-To: <3D20D8DE.2D07022D@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020701153724.Y24940-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > > I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and > > > Matt Dillon posted patches? > > > > Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about > > reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's broken now, and in my > > experience, turning it off makes the system "work better." > > > > I agree that it should be fixed in the long term, but it ain't gonna be me > > that fixes it. > > Then use Dillon's patches, instead of just turning it off. Dillon's patches were committed, by Dillon. :) My systems still work better with newreno off than with it on. > Your anecdotal experience with "works better" is just that -- anecdotal. > It doesn't hold for the general case. I never claimed otherwise. In fact, I specifically suggested that this would be _one_ place to start testing. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message