wierd dsl performance with -CURRENT

[John Polstra]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307091039200.87910-100000 at InterJet.elischer.org>,
Julian Elischer  <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, John Polstra wrote:
> 
> > In article <20030709122610.E3831 at alpha.yumyumyum.org>,
> > Kenneth Culver  <culverk at yumyumyum.org> wrote:
> > > 	Recently, for some wierd reason, with FreeBSD-CURRENT my DSL
> > > downloads have gotten about 10-15 KB/sec slower than they used to be.. I
> > > used to get 160KB/sec downloads, and now can only manage about 145. I was
> > > wondering if there are any ideas what is causing this. I'm sure it's a
> > > FreeBSD problem because when I boot up windows or hook my mac straight to
> > > the dsl modem, each of those gets the full 160KB/sec download (from the
> > > same site, ftp2.freebsd.org) but when I download from FreeBSD, the speed
> > > drops.
> > 
> > Just as an experiment, try setting "net.inet.tcp.newreno" to 0 using
> > sysctl(8).  It might help; it might not.  Please let us know.
> 
> I think he is timing transfers from a Mac THROUGH the BSD box..

Hmm, that's not how I interpret what he said.  He specifically
referred to downloading "from FreeBSD."

John
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