On 2011-03-25, Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:24:16 -0300, Kleber Rocha <kli...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Thanks all of you, I really don't know how some options of sysctl.conf >> works, I turn back the option to default values and follow the >> considerations of https://calomel.org/network_performance.html [1]. >> I'm using OpenBSD 4.8. >> > > As some pointed out, they take calomel.org's articles with scepticism. > I had a good read of that article and it sounds reasonable to me. > Question to the OpenBSD network gurus: Can one follow this specific > article on calomel.org or not?
Not. > If not, where are the mistakes? :) The whole premise of the article is wrong. If there were simple tweaks that could be done blindly that would improve things, they would be done by default. Even the simple "bump net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen" so often quoted (which is indeed useful in some cases) has drawbacks, without even considering the some of the "exponentially increase your KVM use" settings the article talks about.
