From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 14:08:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAEE16A47B for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:08:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA5C413C44C for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 95232 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2007 13:42:09 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Received:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:Importance; b=xo0vYWRYVaynMwqomMLV9HAYnbOJrqm2isNbVyxhfPhhOuCqRj4oxG7hNok+DOEnvEgYjk2K9Ajgkr49zfFah7RwbWGSwDukzDGcQZOhvtImhwiJKEGav5FKRzpMQ5VQxa2ns9vUnnkX9agQfT9uKtGand2xKvgKXAvKOsfrpug= ; Received: from unknown (HELO wettoast.dyndns.org) (mikej@rogers.com@74.111.253.239 with login) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2007 13:42:09 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 4E1_ek4VM1mSBdcI.dtRz5_FsjMxIC_OiJObr3YXAq5SuwU3KQ.l395iP2enTTGv1g-- Received: from 209.47.38.69 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej) by wettoast.dyndns.org with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:42:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <44647.209.47.38.69.1168350126.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <066101c7335f$611c41e0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <066101c7335f$611c41e0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:42:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: "Steven Hartland" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:45:29 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow FreeBSD -> Windows performance with inflight enabled X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:08:50 -0000 On Mon, January 8, 2007 2:58 pm, Steven Hartland wrote: > I've just been looking at an issue reported by some > of our users that downloads from our one of our sites > run on FreeBSD 6.1 and Apache 1.3 where strangely > slow. > > After doing some digging around I found that two remote > machines on the same network had wildly different results. > The difference being one was Windows (slow) and one was > FreeBSD 6.1 (fast). > > The results where 380Kb/s download speeds on Windows vs > 500Kb/s on FreeBSD. I played around and Googled to find > that this appears to caused by inflight. Disabling it > and restarting apache cures the problem. AFAIK there was some work done on this to make it more adaptive for LAN networks, but im not sure which version got this.