Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 20:09:26 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does newreno work as designed ? Message-ID: <6060.1057342166@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:51:42 PDT." <200307041349.h64DnuVu012858@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>
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In message <200307041349.h64DnuVu012858@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>, Jeffrey Hsu wr ites: > > I'm sitting on a ISDN line right now, and I thought the newreno issues > > had been solved, but by disabling newreno I get a distinctly better > > web-surfing experience. > >NewReno is a sender-side only algorithm and web-surfing is mostly a >receiver-side experience. If you gather some quantitative numbers >on bulk transfers or a packet trace, I'd be happy to look at them for you. Disabling newreno gives a tangible reduction in stalled http requests for me. I'll try to get a packet trace for you. > http://people.freebsd.org/~hsu/tmp/explicitnewreno.diff >and see if it affects your web-surfing experience. If this is the patch you mailed me yesterday, I'm already running with it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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