> In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/199907142021.naa01...@dingo.cdrom.com> > you write: > >> delayed ack sounds interesting.... > > > >Turning that off disables TCP slow-start. It's a huge performance > >booster for things like SMB service, where you have lots of short-lived > >TCP connections on a local net. > > Mike probably already knows this, but just a general clarification: > > No, it does _not_ turn off slow-start. Normally a TCP implementation > will delay sending an ACK to the peer until the TCP fasttimer expires, > or certain other conditions are met. The goal here is to amortize an > ACK over several incoming data packets.
Yeah, brain fart. Slow start != delayed ACK. Blah. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
