> 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 mirrors).
>
> With a clean, partially configured default install of Linux Slackware
> (kernel 2.6.25) I reached download speeds of about 2.5 MB/s, while the
> same file from same server (not a round robin server for sure)
> downloaded on OpenBSD default 4.6 install hardly reached 400 KB/s.
>
> I repeated the test again two times, and got the same results. Then I
> fell over a page (
https://calomel.org/network_performance.html) that
> offers some tweaking to OpenBSD's sysctl, and I dumbly pasted them in
> my sysctl.conf and rebooted.
>
> As (not) expected, download rate in OpenBSD reached almost exactly the
> same results of Linux Slackware. The main question is why? Do I need
> to tweak something more to get even better results? Are those settings
> safe enough to be used? Or the default settings had a strong reason
> for being there?
> 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?
>
> Again, my intentions are *really* positive and I just want to learn
> more (a quick search on -misc archives didn't led me to much stuff).
>
> Thank you
> Sebastiano
>
