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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 13:34:47 -0700
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        'Paul Herman' <pherman@frenchfries.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance
Message-ID:  <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AFA1D@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105251601310.57016-100000@husten.security.at12.de>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Herman [mailto:pherman@frenchfries.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:05 AM
> To: Bill Moran
> Cc: Drew Tomlinson; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance
>
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> > Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm pretty green here and have no idea what this is.
> Could you point me to
> > > a URL, man page, etc. that will expand on this?
>
> Delayed ACK is good for links that have large RTTs, and you plan on
> receiving more data than serving.  Delayed ACKs got a little
> improvement before 4.3-RELEASE, but I still think for LANs it isn't
> necessary and it'd be OK to turn it off.

Thank you both for the info.  I checked the net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack and it
already is set to "1".  Are you saying I can set this to "0"?

Thanks,

Drew


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