On 2020-12-16, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > Right now, I'm getting overall, good performance, but strange > patterns -- > > $ ftp https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/install68.img > > starts out with a very modest speed, but then starts going > faster and faster, ftp updates its progress about once per second, > the first few updates are less than 1MB/s, but by the end, it's > doing 20MB/s. I've attached a typescript of two pulls from > ftp.openbsd.org to openbsd.cs.toronto.edu.
That is normal as the tcp congestion window opens up.
