Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:25:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Craig Critchley" <craigc@nwlink.com> Cc: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, <net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FTP Net Performance Message-ID: <199910271525.LAA87666@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <1f6601bf200e$c8e476b0$0201010a@fuzzer.com> References: <1df701bf1f84$32751020$0201010a@fuzzer.com> <199910261606.MAA83232@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <1f6601bf200e$c8e476b0$0201010a@fuzzer.com>
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<<On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:04:05 -0700, "Craig Critchley" <craigc@nwlink.com> said: > Looking at netstat -i, I see that I'm getting Oerrs of about 15% of Opkts, > but no Ierrs. There is an inconsequential number of collisions. Perhaps > the error rate is to blame for the problem. What sorts of things do these > errors represent? TCP performance is going to suck with that level of packet loss. TCP only works well with less than about 1% packet loss; if you're losing 15%, that explains what's going on. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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