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#! rnews 1451 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Glaring anomaly in lmbench results: socket bandwidth using localhost = 0.21 MB/s X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4fofu7$4gn@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4fkus7$kab@stork.runit.sintef.no> <4fl75p$rlv@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4fkuq0$1ev@dyson.iquest.net> <4fluem$rps@stork.runit.sintef.no> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 22:45:27 GMT Lines: 14 In article <4fluem$rps@stork.runit.sintef.no>, Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote: > >OK, I tried 4K, and got consistently 11.80 MByte/s. Much nicer, thanks! I >also tried 32K, which is the default in NetBSD-1.1, and that gave me an even >better loopback performance of 15.50 MByte/s. Now tell me - why shouldn't I >leave the loopback MTU at 32K? > I am NOT one of the networking experts and I am beyond my area of competency. Try asking for the info on questions@freebsd.org. I did remember hearing from one of them that the 4k fix would work -- never tried the 32k thing. John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org