From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 31 22:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BA337B421 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g016G1A56458; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:16:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:16:01 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011231221601.A54679@nexus.root.com> References: <200112312327.fBVNRt719835@whizzo.transsys.com> <200201010043.g010h0i36281@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200201010043.g010h0i36281@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:43:00PM -0800 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 > 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 Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message