On 2020-12-16, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2020-12-16, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: >> Right now, I'm getting overall, good performance, but strange >> patterns -- >> >> $ ftp https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/install68.img >> >> starts out with a very modest speed, but then starts going >> faster and faster, ftp updates its progress about once per second, >> the first few updates are less than 1MB/s, but by the end, it's >> doing 20MB/s. I've attached a typescript of two pulls from >> ftp.openbsd.org to openbsd.cs.toronto.edu. > > That is normal as the tcp congestion window opens up.
(depending on behaviour of the TCP stacks involved..)
