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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:15:11 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <20011128091511.A75389@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <15364.38767.82340.347344@caddis.yogotech.com>
References:  <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <25429.1006933507@critter.freebsd.dk> <15364.38767.82340.347344@caddis.yogotech.com>

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:51:11AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > >Note, some of the performance issues were made better by disabling the
> > >TCP newreno implementation, but it's still poor and very inconsistent
> > >for hosts not on the local network, while the Linux box next to it gets
> > >much more consistent results.
> > 
> > For what it's worth I have disabled newreno at my customer sites as well
> > and felt and heard less "bogosity" since.
> 
> It's actually pretty awful.  However, even with the fix I merged back
> into RELENG_4, the performance with/without newreno is still *much*
> worse (in terms of consistantly giving the same results) than the code
> in FreeBSD 3.x.
> 
> The interesting thing is that the application that's getting the most
> press is one of our field technicians downloading a file over anonymous
> ftp by hand, so it's not like we're generating tons of traffic, or
> alot of parallel connections.
> 
> The connections hang, abort, and those that complete have numbers that
> are *all* over the map.  However, when connected to a Linux box on the
> same network, none of these bad things occur. :(

Please, please provide information and dumps!  To be honest, this 
is the first I've heard about bad network performance, (other than
the NewReno issue), and I would really appreciate raw tcpdumps to 
analyze.
-- 
Jonathan

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