Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 06/02/10 19:43, Claudio Jeker ha scritto: Thank you for the clear answer. Anyway, trying to act on tcp.sendspace isn't affecting the upload capabilities of my OpenBSD server. I tried downloading a file through httpd, via ftp but results are still disappointing: 60-70 kbp

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:37:11 +0100 (GMT+01:00) Vincent Tamet wrote: > Hi, by the way strange mac-adresse, oui search show a cisco systems > mac one... > > > Just logged through ssh on the server, ifconfig reports: > > > > > > re0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > > lladdr 00:b0:c2:02:5e:a0 > > >

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-08 Thread Vincent Tamet
Hi, by the way strange mac-adresse, oui search show a cisco systems mac one... - Mail Original - De: "Sebastiano Pomata" C: misc@openbsd.org EnvoyC): Lundi 8 FC)vrier 2010 11h17:31 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: Download rate

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:43:54 +0100 Claudio Jeker wrote: > > >> Thank you for the clear answer. Anyway, trying to act on > > >> tcp.sendspace isn't affecting the upload capabilities of my > > >> OpenBSD server. I tried downloading a file through httpd, via > > >> ftp but results are still disappoin

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-02-06, James Peltier wrote: > > Have you tried another network card, like an Intel (em) based > card? The Realtek cards have, at least in the past, been poor performers for > me. That's mostly the rl(4) ones, re(4) are pretty much ok. Not *great*, but really nothing to complain about (un

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 06/02/10 18:45, James Peltier ha scritto: > Have you tried another network card, like an Intel (em) based > card? The Realtek cards have, at least in the past, been poor performers for > me. > __ I have only available another eth

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > Il 06/02/10 15:12, Claudio Jeker ha scritto: > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > >> Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: > I really can understand this, for the sake of system p

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread James Peltier
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > From: Kenneth R Westerback > Subject: Re: Download rate and sysctl settings > To: "Sebastiano Pomata" > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Received: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 11:33 AM > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:09:08PM >

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread James Peltier
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Claudio Jeker wrote: > From: Claudio Jeker > Subject: Re: Download rate and sysctl settings > To: misc@openbsd.org > Received: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 9:12 AM > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM > +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > > Il 06/02/10

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:27:11PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > Il 06/02/10 17:33, Kenneth R Westerback ha scritto: > > Optimally you now need to check what the switch port is > > configured/negotiated to. e.g. if it has ended up in 10/half you > > have a problem. Ditto for the connections for

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 06/02/10 17:33, Kenneth R Westerback ha scritto: > Optimally you now need to check what the switch port is > configured/negotiated to. e.g. if it has ended up in 10/half you > have a problem. Ditto for the connections for the other device. > > If you have no access to the switch you can try eve

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > Il 06/02/10 15:12, Claudio Jeker ha scritto: > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > >> Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: > I really can understand this, for the sake of system p

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 06/02/10 15:12, Claudio Jeker ha scritto: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: >> Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 06/02/10 15:12, Claudio Jeker ha scritto: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: >> Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Vijay Sankar
Sebastiano Pomata wrote: Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without touching any of the default settings, download rate from every server would never overcome the valu

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: > >> I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so > >> on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without touching any of the > >> default settings, downl

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-06 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 06/02/10 03:55, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: >> I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so >> on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without touching any of the >> default settings, download rate from every server would never overcome >> the value of 400 kB/s. I

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-02-05, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 + (UTC) > Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: >> > As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan >> > network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results >>

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
Il 05/02/10 16:11, Ted Unangst ha scritto: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Ivo Chutkin wrote: >> I was about to post the same topic here. >> I observe 250K/s on any OpenBSD server in my network, versions 4.2, 4.4, 4.5 >> and 4.6, various hardware, using wget -O /dev/null >> I can start the same

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Ivo Chutkin wrote: > I was about to post the same topic here. > I observe 250K/s on any OpenBSD server in my network, versions 4.2, 4.4, 4.5 > and 4.6, various hardware, using wget -O /dev/null > I can start the same download many times on the same machine with ever

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:04:50PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:39:03 +0100 > Claudio Jeker wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:59:44AM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 + (UTC) > > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > > > On 201

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:39:03 +0100 Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:59:44AM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 + (UTC) > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata > > > wrote: > > > > As doublechecking, I tried with an

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Yes, our default window size limits download speed. It is known and there is work ongoing to resolve this in a better way then just bumping the limit. Nice Claudio. ?Maybe something likeTCP frame buffer Autotuning available in FreeBSD since 7.x (1)? (1) http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/Fre

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Ivo Chutkin
On 05.2.2010 P3. 09:59, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results (while a

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:59:44AM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 + (UTC) > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > > > As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan > > > network of our academy, and I'm gett

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-05 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > > As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan > > network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results > > (while absolute speeds are different from befor

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan > network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results (while > absolute speeds are different from before, the gap is almost the same > in magnitude). > > I've read the page abou

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata wrote: > Why on the FAQ (chapter 6) it says that tweaking > net.inet.tcp.recvspace and > net.inet.tcp.sendspace won't led to great improvements, while actually > I got them? $ cvs annotate faq6.html|grep very.few Annotations for faq6.html *** 1.234

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-04 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results (while absolute speeds are different from before, the gap is almost the same in magnitude). I've read the page about tcptune, it's pretty clear now (values are almost

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-04 Thread John Jackson
Read about bandwidth delay product: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/ John On \!Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:36:01PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: > Le jeudi 04 fivrier 2010 20:00:54, Sebastiano Pomata a icrit : > > If I may ask, I post to the list this question (I have no purpose on > > c

Re: Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-04 Thread Jean-Francois
Le jeudi 04 fivrier 2010 20:00:54, Sebastiano Pomata a icrit : > If I may ask, I post to the list this question (I have no purpose on > creating flames/trolls/os wars, just for my personal knowledge). > > On the same box (Core 2 Duo, Realtek Gigabit ethernet) I've performed > today this simple test

Download rate and sysctl settings

2010-02-04 Thread Sebastiano Pomata
If I may ask, I post to the list this question (I have no purpose on creating flames/trolls/os wars, just for my personal knowledge). On the same box (Core 2 Duo, Realtek Gigabit ethernet) I've performed today this simple test, downloading a big file from wu-wien FTP site (it's one of OpenBSD main