From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 31 18:11:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C5237B428 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:11:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0168.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.168] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16LEOd-0004Zv-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:11:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3C311AC9.99B5FC9C@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:11:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Julian Elischer , Mike Silbersack , Josef Karthauser , Tomas Svensson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? References: <200112312327.fBVNRt719835@whizzo.transsys.com> <200201010043.g010h0i36281@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Matthew Dillon wrote: > Yes, you are correct. There is no real reason for ssh to set > TCP_NODELAY on FreeBSD and, in fact, I believe it didn't used to. > We should just turn it off. FWIW, I agree that it should not be set. Setting socket options has the unfortunate side effect of grabbing more per connection memory than would otherwise be necessary. Still, it's legal to set the option, even if it's not really a sane thing to do in many cases, so disallowing it is not a "fix" for anything. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message