From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 30 7:31:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BFE37B41E for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:31:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fAUFVWx84809; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:31:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:31:32 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: Pierre Beyssac Cc: Josh Paetzel , jc@irbs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011130103132.A84654@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Pierre Beyssac , Josh Paetzel , jc@irbs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011129004234.A16101@exuma.irbs.com> <20011130010354.A21307@fasterix.frmug.org> <20011129184414.F522@twincat.vladsempire.net> <20011130022547.A21889@fasterix.frmug.org> <20011129204225.A63957@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20011130032345.A23415@fasterix.frmug.org> <20011129222809.A67159@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20011130111156.A27621@fasterix.frmug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011130111156.A27621@fasterix.frmug.org>; from pb@fasterix.freenix.org on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:11:56AM +0100 Organization: United Federation of Planets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:11:56AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > It's where I don't quite agree: for a bulk transfer, there is no > RTT to account for, you only need to take into account the one-way > delay, TCP does the rest for you assuming the window is large enough. I recomend you pick up a copy of "TCP/IP Illustrated" by W Richard Stevens. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message