On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:50 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
FTP? Who uses FTP these days? Certainly not consumers. Even Cisco
well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around.
that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks
rocks for large data flows.
Large data sets? So you are saying that 512-byte packets with no
windowing work better? Bill, have you measured this?
Time to download a 100mb file over HTTP and a 100mb interface: 20
seconds.
Time to download a 100mb file over FTP and a 100mb interface: ~7
minutes.
And yes, that was FreeBSD with the old version openssl library that
shipped with 6.3.
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Jo Rhett
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