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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:10:57 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Cc:        jwd@FreeBSD.ORG (John W. De Boskey), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp vs. nfs install times 
Message-ID:  <35785.972544257@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2000 08:37:37 %2B0200." <200010260637.e9Q6bbK53295@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> 

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In message <200010260637.e9Q6bbK53295@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>, John Hay write
s:

>> 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. :-)

I sent packet traces to yan some time back, but have not heard from him
since.  I wonder if we should disable newrene for now...

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