Re: Slow WAN traffic to FreeBSD hosts but not to Linux hosts---how to debug/fix?
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:14:27 UTC
W dniu 1.02.2023 o 20:33, Paul Mather pisze: > It looks like we may have a winner, folks. I built and enabled the extra TCP stacks and for the first time was able to max out my connection to the remote FreeBSD system. I get consistently higher throughput over the 15-hop WAN path to the remote FreeBSD system when using the RACK TCP stack than when using the default "freebsd" stack. > > Although the speeds are consistently higher when using the setting "net.inet.tcp.functions_default=rack", they are still variable. However, rather than the 3--4 MB/s I saw that kicked off this thread, I now average over 10 MB/s. > > I actually get the best results with "net.inet.tcp.functions_default=bbr" (having loaded tcp_bbr). That behaves very much like the Linux hosts in that speeds climb very quickly until it saturates the WAN connection. I get the same high speeds from the remote FreeBSD system using tcp_bbr as I do to the Linux hosts. I will stick with tcp_bbr for now as the default on my remote FreeBSD servers. It appears to put them on a par with Linux for this WAN link. Thanks for the feedback Paul. Please bear in mind that BBR 1 which is implemented in FreeBSD is not a fair[1] congestion control algorithm. Maybe in the future, we will have BBR v2 in the stack, but for now, I don't recommend using BBR, unless you want to act slightly as a hm.... network leecher. Maybe Linux hosts behave this way, maybe they have implemented BBR v2, I am not familiar with Linux TCP stack enhancements. On the other hand, tcp_rack(4) is performant, well-tested in the FreeBSD stack, considered fair and more acceptable for a fileserver, though not ideal, ie. probably more computationally expensive and still missing some features like TCP-MD5. [1] https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/12/4128 Cheers -- Marek Zarychta