Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:57:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hawkeyd@visi.com, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi Message-ID: <20020701135548.Y86208-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <3D209493.DF173DA0@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > I'm guessing that the suggestion to turn it off (the original thread) is > > valid enough, as all machines referred to were on the same network, else > > why wouldn't the above still hold true? Or is it a matter of FTP and/or > > SMTP (specifically, sendmail) not playing nice with newreno? > > The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us > who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed that even > on a homogenous network (all with newreno enabled) performance is still > worse than with newreno disabled. > > I don't have enough network stack fu to debug or improve this, but I > have enough experience with it to know that off is better. For you, I'd > say turning it off is the first thing you should test, and see what > happens. > > Doug I've been meaning to investigate, but I keep getting sidetracked... But yeah, I agree with you. Going back to plain reno isn't the end of the world; it's still behaves decently and won't cause problems. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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