On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Sebastiano Pomata wrote:
quoted text > 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. Is it all due to the tcp windows size?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
>
> 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 kbps between two boxes on the same switch.
>
> The box is going to become a webserver, could you please give me more
> hints about tuning network performance?
>
Check your links. This sounds like a full-duplex issue between switch and
machines. On a LAN even with default tcp send/recvspace you should get
easily get up to 200Mbps.
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:wq Claudio
