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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:54:00 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Alan Batie <batie@aahz.jf.intel.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: net performance thoughts 
Message-ID:  <199812010154.RAA23100@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:45:04 PST." <19981130154503.54867@aahz.jf.intel.com> 

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>Our internal support group backs up my system with BudTool, which rsh's
>dump, I believe.  They're complaining about the performace of the process,
>which often bogs down to modem-like speeds, or even fails entirely (we're
>on Fast Ethernet).  Apparently, my system, which is the only FreeBSD
>system they back up (I'm pretty sure, but there are some BSDI systems),
>is the only experiencing this sort of problem.  Has anyone heard of this
>sort of problem?  I'm on 2.2.2-Release...

   Trying adding the "-D" option to your rlogind ("shell" in inetd.conf).
This will turn on TCP_NODELAY and should fix the problem if the small-packet
congestion avoidance is the cause of the slowness.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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