In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Sierchio writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both >> -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. >> >> I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very >> good test-bed for this issue. > >Wireless breaks a lot of "optimizations," doesn't it? Congestion control >assumes that packet loss is due to congestion, and less than 1% of loss >is due to damage -- quite the opposite of 802.11(b) in an urban >environment -- cordless phones, microwaves, etc.
newreno is not sold as being a significant pessimization in some cases. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
