Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:37:37 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za (John Hay), jwd@FreeBSD.ORG (John W. De Boskey), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp vs. nfs install times Message-ID: <200010260637.e9Q6bbK53295@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <35311.972540689@critter> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Oct 26, 2000 08:11:29 am"
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> >> > >> 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. Yes, that makes a HUGE difference. I only did it on the current box. Internat is still running 4.x and don't have it. I think it made more than a factor of 5 difference here. :-) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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