From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 23 21:47:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from interim.haloflightleader.net (adsl-63-197-56-193.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.197.56.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D88F37B405 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 21:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from Peter ([192.168.1.254]) by interim.haloflightleader.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fBO5lnX02874 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 21:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@haloflightleader.net) Message-ID: <002a01c18c3e$31ad8180$0101a8c0@haloflightleader.net> From: "Peter Ong" To: References: Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 21:45:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Found the answer. Only a suspicion though. When I had RH7.1/Samba, there was no skips, I told you. But, when I finally moved to FreeBSD, my mp3 was skipping. I couldn't even watch movies anymore. I said it would only happen after about a minute was through the song. What I didn't think to correlate was the amount of free space on the client machine which is my Windows98SE laptop. There was like some 40MB free left. I didn't set a partition specifically swap on the Windex machine either. Hence, I was right about my theory. It was reading the cache faster than it could be written because there wasn't much space to write a larger cache. Thus, it was skipping. I re-installed this evening the laptop. No more skipping. But then again there is more than 2GB of space open. No more skipping. Back to my original theory. FreeBSD rewls! Yeah! Around about the same time I installed Visio on my laptop which took a lot of space. There was already a lot of clutter on the hdd to begin with. Visio exacerbated the problem. Now, no visio. Woohoo! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Watson" To: "Peter Ong" Cc: "Nevermind" ; "Murray Stokely" ; ; ; Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing > 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" > > To: "Nevermind" > > Cc: "Murray Stokely" ; ; > > ; > > 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 > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message