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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:46:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Tomas Svensson <tsn@gbdev.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0112281744380.92969-100000@niwun.pair.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011228223754.E1238@tao.org.uk>

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:36:22PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> >
> > I'd have to agree.  I just recompiled libssh / sshd so that NODELAY would
> > not be set in any case, and ls acts a lot more nicely over a modem link.
> > (2 large updates, rather than lots of tiny ones.)  I'm not sure that we're
> > seeing any actual bug in the tcp stack here as much as the effect of
> > packet loss and tinygrams.
> >
>
> Packet loss is, or should be, next to zero as both machines are on
> an uncongested 10base ether on my local network.
>
> Joe

Well, should != is.  Look at the packet trace, a couple of packets clearly
get dropped.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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