On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:43:14PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Schamil Wackenhut <sw@wacke.org> writes:
> > I did some benchmarking in my private network today, and i saw that
> > the udp transferrate between my server(NetBSD 1.6.2/GENERIC/ipf
> > disabled) and my firewall(OpenBSD 3.5/GENERIC/pf disabled) (both
> > have 100mbit ethernet link) is down to only ~25MBit/s. TCP transferrate
> > is ok (90MBit/s). What can be a reason for such slow udp traffic?
> 
> I'd read TCP/IP Illustrated, volume 1, to learn the answer, but
> in general UDP tends to be pretty slow unless you implement all the
> nice things TCP does, at which point you have TCP.

On a 10M HDX local LAN segment, UDP should be faster then TCP because
there are no acks being sent.
With a large TCP window, the receiving system can have many acks
queued to be sent by the time the cable becomes idle enough to
send any of them - they then go out as back-to-back packets.

Provided no packets are being lost UDP should be faster than TCP.
I suspect this is one reason why NFS used TCP.

	David

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