On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:51:11AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > >Note, some of the performance issues were made better by disabling the > > >TCP newreno implementation, but it's still poor and very inconsistent > > >for hosts not on the local network, while the Linux box next to it gets > > >much more consistent results. > > > > For what it's worth I have disabled newreno at my customer sites as well > > and felt and heard less "bogosity" since. > > It's actually pretty awful. However, even with the fix I merged back > into RELENG_4, the performance with/without newreno is still *much* > worse (in terms of consistantly giving the same results) than the code > in FreeBSD 3.x. > > The interesting thing is that the application that's getting the most > press is one of our field technicians downloading a file over anonymous > ftp by hand, so it's not like we're generating tons of traffic, or > alot of parallel connections. > > The connections hang, abort, and those that complete have numbers that > are *all* over the map. However, when connected to a Linux box on the > same network, none of these bad things occur. :(
Please, please provide information and dumps! To be honest, this is the first I've heard about bad network performance, (other than the NewReno issue), and I would really appreciate raw tcpdumps to analyze. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
