From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 23:11:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D21537B479; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9Q6BTU35313; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:11:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Hay Cc: jwd@FreeBSD.ORG (John W. De Boskey), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp vs. nfs install times In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2000 08:00:44 +0200." <200010260600.e9Q60jZ52484@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:11:29 +0200 Message-ID: <35311.972540689@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200010260600.e9Q60jZ52484@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>, John Hay write s: >> >> I've tested last nights make release built >> install via both ftp and nfs and am seeing >> some rather strange results timeing wise: >> >> A full install (ie: select ALL) w/ ports. >> >> NFS: about 18 minutes. (ave. about 1000KB/sec) >> >> FTP: about 70 minutes. (ave. about 45KB/sec) >> > >Maybe just as a datapoint. My -current snap building machine is running >a kernel of Oct 24 and I noticed this morning that it is taking a very >long time to scp the snap to internat. Try disabling newreno in both ends: sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 On my laptop with Wavelan cards this increases TCP throughput by a factor of 5. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message