In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Barton writ es: >On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Mike Silbersack wrote: >> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: >> > > The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us >> > > who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed that even >> > > on a homogenous network (all with newreno enabled) performance is still >> > > worse than with newreno disabled. >> >> I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and >> Matt Dillon posted patches? > >Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about >reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's broken now, and in my >experience, turning it off makes the system "work better."
Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very good test-bed for this issue. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
