Guus Thanks for your kind advice.
I have quickly tested the ProcessPriority option, but unfortunately, I cannot see the improvement with this option. FYI, my tinc is 1.0.11. Regards --- "Guus Sliepen" <g...@tinc-vpn.org> --- >On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:14:11PM +0900, Masateru KUWATA wrote: > >> I have been using OpenVPN for several years and found tinc as a >> simpler/scaler VPN using TUN/TAP device. > >Thanks! > >> I have tried to use tinc on WindowsXP and measured throughput in >> contrast to OpenVPN. >> >> My test revealed that tinc is faster in PING response (almost half of >> OpenVPN). However, when I tested with iperf, tinc's throughput is about >> half of OpenVPN. >> >> I am wondering if anyone can tell me how to tune the throughput of tinc. > >First of all, make sure you run the latest version of tinc. Then, you can tune >is the priority of the tincd.exe process. You can either set that by hand in >the Task Manager, or use the ProcessPriority option in tinc.conf. A high >priority is likely to improve the throughput of tinc, but I do not know if it >will reach the same performance is OpenVPN. > >Tinc uses the select() and related system calls to handle network events. This >is implemented on many operating systems, including Windows, so it keeps the >code very generic and portable. However, the implementation of these portable >system calls on Windows is not so efficient as Windows' native system calls >(using overlapped IO and WaitForMultipleObjects()). If someone is interested it >would be nice to see if he or she can create a patch to let tinc use Windows' >native interface, and then to see what effect this has on performance. > >-- >Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, > Guus Sliepen <g...@tinc-vpn.org> Masateru KUWATA Computer & Communications Consulting Phone: 070-5465-6505(Domestic)/+81-70-5465-6505(Oversea） Mobile mail:masateru_kuw...@wm.pdx.ne.jp Profile: http://www.geocities.jp/mki_ltd/page002.html BLOG : http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mki_ltd/MYBLOG/ _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list tinc@tinc-vpn.org http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
