* David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-13 04:40]: > On Feb 12, 2008 9:44 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008 11:47 AM, NetOne - Doichin Dokov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could we have a look at those numbers, in fact? > > From the parent: > > "In the next step I increased the value for net.inet.tcp.recvspace and > > net.inet.tcp.sendspace to 262144 and that had big impact on the network > > throughput. > > The network throughput increased from 550Mbit/s to 940Mbit/s." > Unless I'm massively wrong about what net.inet.tcp.* is used for, this > indicates that the parent was NOT testing throughput as one would > typically define it for a router/firewall. He was testing his box's > ability to send and receive TCP packets. I think these knobs are > COMPLETELY unused by the code that inspects packets and decides which > interface to send them out.
false. but he chose to redefine throughput, to make communications hard. Oh, btw, I chose to redefine "false". It means what you call "correct" now. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
