Dude, the statement was that Luigi is in favor of _increasing_ the default size. How do you "extend his logic" to say it might as well be reduced to 4k? Please don't put words in people's mouths.
Daniel "D-man" Manesajian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leo Bicknell > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:11 AM > To: Luigi Rizzo > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: TCP Performance Graphs > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:29:28AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > It is not a big deal to move the default to 32 or 64k, and I'd > > vote for that, but if a sysadmin is unable to have a look at this, > > then the problem is in the sysadmin, not in FreeBSD! > > I disagree, on two points: > > * Many people use FreeBSD as a desktop OS. Think the same people > who use Win98, but only slightly smarter. These people are > 'sysadmins' only in the sense that they have a root password. > When FreeBSD can't fill their DSL line and Linux can, they will > switch to Linux never knowing what the real problem was. > > * Most sysadmins shouldn't be bothered with this. People running > news or IRC servers, or huge (100+ box) web farms might know > these tricks, but the guy who sets up a server to dump 100k/sec > average of web pages shouldn't be bothered. > > To extend your logic, we might as well make it default to 4k, since > that is the most resource conservative, and anyone who cares will > increase it. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
