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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:16:01 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <20011231221601.A54679@nexus.root.com>
In-Reply-To: <200201010043.g010h0i36281@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:43:00PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112311225150.94344-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200112312327.fBVNRt719835@whizzo.transsys.com> <200201010043.g010h0i36281@apollo.backplane.com>

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>    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.

   Nagle + delayed acks don't really get along all that well, and often
result in character echoes lagging .25-.5 seconds behind the keystrokes (due
to round trip + 200ms). This really makes editing files and other interactive
jobs rather painful.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com
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