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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:00:27 -0500 (CDT)
From:      hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr)
To:        DougB@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi
Message-ID:  <200207011600.g61G0RW06589@sheol.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3D1EB35C.70F64275_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020629235459.031daf28_mail.Go2France.com@ns.sol.net> <3D1EB35C.70F64275_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>

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In article <3D1EB35C.70F64275_FreeBSD.org@ns.sol.net>,
	DougB@FreeBSD.ORG writes:
> Len Conrad wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, hackers, I posted this twice in -questions and got no response.
>> 
>> If the problem is newreno, can somebody say how to up just that piece for
>> 4.4 so as to be as non-disruptive, non-dice-rolling as possible on this
>> otherwise solid machine?
> 
> You can turn off newreno with the sysctl. I put this in /etc/sysctl.conf
> on my machines:
> 
> net.inet.tcp.newreno=0

Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it,
and what the ramifications of turning it off are?

I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p7, and it's on by default.

Thanks,
Dave

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