On 2010-02-05, Sebastiano Pomata <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 +0000 (UTC) > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata <[email protected]> wrote: >> > As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan >> > network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results >> > (while absolute speeds are different from before, the gap is almost >> > the same in magnitude). >> > >> > I've read the page about tcptune, it's pretty clear now (values are >> > almost the same I edited), still not having clear why on default >> > OpenBSD the transfer rates are so low. >> >> we try to have safe defaults for the varioous machines/arch that >> can run OpenBSD. >> >> we would need some kind of auto-tuning to incrrease the defaults, >> and don't have that yet.
my, what terrible typos I made. > I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so > on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without touching any of the > default settings, download rate from every server would never overcome > the value of 400 kB/s. Is it all due to the tcp windows size? Yes.
