Re: quite big breakthrough in the BAD network performance, which mm6 did not fix

[Redeeman <lkml@metanurb.dk>]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:54 -0700, Matt Heler wrote:
> Ok first take benchmarks ( use wget ), and secondly results from the internet 
> vary day by day , hour to hour , minute by minute. Don't expect all sites on 
> the internet to be the same speed, or even stay the same speed for that 
> matter. For more accurate benchmark results setup a personal server on your 
> own private network and benchmark http trasnfers using different kernels. 
i am aware of this, however, what i use to benchmark is kernel.org, as i
can see they have alot bandwith free.
if i use kernel.org http i get 50kb/s, if i use ftp, i can easily fetch
with 200kb/s
also, the gnu ftp, where i took gcc3.4.1, it gave me 200kb/s
> 
> Matt H.
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday 05 July 2004 4:38 pm, Redeeman wrote:
> > hey, i have had a breakthrough in the investigation...
> > it turns out that some sites does not load.. but you know all about
> > that, and a "fix" with sysctl fixes some of it.
> >
> > networking was generally slow - or not!
> > it seems that its only HTTP transfers going insanely slow. which also
> > probably is those ipv4 issues, so now we just need to figure out what
> > changed, and what we need to change to fix it, so that we again can get
> > all sites loading, and HTTP protocol fully functionel again.
> >
> > hope someone has some ideas.
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