* Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> [2010-09-21 00:47]: > On 2010-09-20, Andre Keller <a...@list.ak.cx> wrote: > > We did some tuning (mostly with informations from: > > https://calomel.org/network_performance.html) and could improve the > > performance: > > grr, that page again. > > "As a very general rule, using the on-board network card is going > to be much slower than an add in PCI card" > > "A gigabit network controller built on board using the CPU will > slow the entire system down. More than likely the system will not > even be able to sustain 100MB speeds while also pegging the CPU at > 100%." > > and people still use it for kernel tuning advice?
holy shit. that is indeed horribly wrong. in many cases it is the exact opposite of the truth these days. > > sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=262144 > > sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=262144 > > sysctl net.inet.udp.recvspace=262144 > > sysctl net.inet.udp.sendspace=262144 > the net.inet.*space values HAVE NO EFFECT on routed packets. as said a gazillion times. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting
