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To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
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Subject: Re: TCP problem 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 15:59:33 -0700
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>Uh, er, yes...  :)
>
>I wanted to test some parameters in order to push network performance
>since this machine is a mid-sized squid server that I'm using to project
>bigger ones.
...
>/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
>/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536

   This is the cause of the problem. You really don't want to change these,
anyway. You'll see the best performance at the default of 16KB.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project