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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:24:00 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcp sendspace/recvspace
Message-ID:  <20001105172400.A8778@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200011052202.OAA24207@implode.root.com>; from dg@root.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 02:02:44PM -0800
References:  <200011052202.OAA24207@implode.root.com>

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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 02:02:44PM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
>    I've been messing around with the net.inet.tcp.sendspace and=20
> net.inet.tcp.recvspace parameters on ftp.freesoftware.com and have found
> that there is a significant performance improvement when increasing these
> to 32768 bytes. Apparantly there are enough systems out there with higher
> window maxes that it really does make a difference. By significant=20
> improvement, I mean about a average of a 20% increase in Mbps per user,
> and this was just the change over a 30 minute period with lots of connect=
ions
> still using the old 16K values.
>    Any objections to increasing the defaults in FreeBSD to 32K?

Won't this impact the latency of multiple connections over a slow PPP link?

Kris

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