On Feb 12, 2008 9:44 PM, Darren Spiteri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 11:47 AM, NetOne - Doichin Dokov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could we have a look at those numbers, in fact? > > > From the parent: > > "In the next step I increased the value for net.inet.tcp.recvspace and > net.inet.tcp.sendspace to 262144 and that had big impact on the network > throughput. > The network throughput increased from 550Mbit/s to 940Mbit/s."
Unless I'm massively wrong about what net.inet.tcp.* is used for, this indicates that the parent was NOT testing throughput as one would typically define it for a router/firewall. He was testing his box's ability to send and receive TCP packets. I think these knobs are COMPLETELY unused by the code that inspects packets and decides which interface to send them out. --david
