From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 22:31:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nerv.nu (cx639627-c.irvn1.occa.home.com [24.0.209.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9407637B66B for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 22:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nugundam@nerv.nu) Received: (from nugundam@localhost) by mail.nerv.nu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA29535; Fri, 19 May 2000 21:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nugundam) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:51:09 -0700 From: "Joseph T. Lee" To: Bhishan Hemrajani Cc: C J Michaels , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable download varies w/FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000519215109.A29435@greenwood3.nerv.nu> References: <200004231625.e3NGPcc46860@cytosine.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004231625.e3NGPcc46860@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 09:25:38AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 09:25:38AM -0700, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote: > Also, I kind of figured out the problem. I found out that there were some > tweaks for cable modems. I applied the following tweaks, and I eventually > got the same speed: > > # sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=186880 > # sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=186880 I'm trying net.inet.tcp.(send|recv)space=372300, and inet.inet.tcp.mssdflt=1460 as recommended at speedguide.com now. Thanks for the pointer! Things seem to be a bit faster than before, but I can't be sure since it's @Home or, unpredictable as hell. I wonder what net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack is for. Time to scan the headers. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message