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Subject: Re: tcp throughput and net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:16:04PM +0100, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> Maybe it's an idea to make this an per-interface value. On my local GigE 
> NFS network it might not be useful (well, maybe even lowering the 
> performance), while on another interface with lots of connects from all 
> over the world does a good job.

Andre has just committed something which disables this on TCP
conections with a short round trip time - this is probably quite
a good workaround for now:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c?#rev1.237

David.