From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 17:55:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25030 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25015 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@root.com) Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23100; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:54:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812010154.RAA23100@root.com> To: Alan Batie cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net performance thoughts In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:45:04 PST." <19981130154503.54867@aahz.jf.intel.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:54:00 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message