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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:34:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      doug <doug@safeport.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   MP3Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1011223173242.18547A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011223171745.8511p-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Robert Watson wrote:

> The theory goes that there are a number of TCP improvements, in particular
> a bugfix involving the newreno algorithm, that should address this
> specific problem.  Once our first release candidate comes out, we'd really
> appreciate it if you had the chance to test and see if that fixes the
> problem.  It should be out around Jan 5, 2002.  If it doesn't, please post
> to freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org ASAP.   (an upgrade on the -STABLE branch should
> also fix it).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
> 
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote:
> 
> > I apologize if I'm off.  But it seems you guys are talking about improving
> > FBSD 4.5 networking performance.
> > 
> > I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release.  It works great, but there is that
> > one problem Samba.  I like Samba because it's functional.  I don't know if
> > it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very erratically.
> > Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow.
> > 
> > When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well.  Samba worked fine, but
> > also with the same behavior.  But it was somewhat more reliable on RH than
> > FreeBSD.  I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although I'm inclined
> > to say it is Samba.  If so, disregard this message.
> > 
> > When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there.  I'd listen to it on
> > Winamp from my Win98 laptop.  It worked fine...  no skips.  But when I put
> > it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it passes that
> > time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if it's readying
> > the cache faster than it's being transfered over the network.  My network is
> > 10/100Mbits switched.
> > 
> > The difference is now only the operating system.  The box is a P3/450/128MB.
> > It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD.  Now, I'm having that problem.  Videos
> > are even worse.  I have some *.mov, and Real movie files, that I must first
> > download, and then I watch.  I can't watch it over the wire.
> > 
> > This is just my two cents.  Maybe 5 cents.  Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > To: "Nevermind" <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
> > Cc: "Murray Stokely" <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>;
> > <freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG>; <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 10:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nevermind wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, Murray Stokely!
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:30:37PM -0800, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >   There were some problems with the network performance of FreeBSD 4.4
> > > > > that were never discovered during the release candidates phase, so I'd
> > > > > like to take a more pro-active role in getting users to test the
> > > > > system in more demanding environments.
> > > > >
> > > > >   A complete list of changes is available in the 4.5-PRERELEASE
> > > > > release notes, available at :
> > > > >
> > > > >    http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/
> > > >
> > > > Could you, please, include in Relnotes that Java will be included in
> > > > 4.5?
> > >
> > > I have't seen that support actually appear in ports/packages-land as yet,
> > > but I greatly look forward to that happening.  It would probably be
> > > appropriate to wait until the details have been committed before
> > > documenting it.
> > >
> > > Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> > > robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
> > >
> > >
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> > 
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