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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:56:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Geoff Mohler <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
To:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc:        Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>, Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, jc@irbs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111291955340.77669-100000@speedracer.speedtoys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011129222809.A67159@ussenterprise.ufp.org>

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Dont forget the latencies introduced by routing hardware..Id not expect
the average DSL modem to be to snappy about its internal packet forwarding
performance.

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

Thats a good read


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:23:45AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote:
> > I can't reproduce this result, 16K fills a T1 for 11 ms, which is
> > 22000 km (at 2/3 of light speed), enough to get halfway round the
> > earth...
> 
> Your math is a little funny.
> 
> 4000 km New York to LA
> 
> c = 300,000 km/sec
> 
> Speed of light in fiber, approximately .66 c, or 198,000 km/sec.
> Approximate sum of buffering + serialization delay in the network,
> is a 15% penalty, or 168,300 kph. total speed.
> 
> 4000 km one way == 8000 km two way, 8000 / 168300 = 47ms in my book,
> theoretial optimum.
> 
> With an RTT of 47ms, you can move 16k per RTT, or or about 340k/sec.
> 
> * If you find a cross country RTT of 47 ms I'll personally send you
>   $20.  around 60-65 is normal for "good circuits", and 70-90 is
>   not wholely unusual.
> 
> * The 340k/sec assumes perfect network conditions, that is no dropped
>   or delayed packets.
> 
> Please search the archives.  There are reams of information about
> this.  
> 
> -- 
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