Re: Why is my gigabit ethernet so slow?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:44:29PM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>
> I found http://proj.sunet.se/E2E/tcptune.html and played a little with 
> the receiver (NetBSD 5.99.24), below 3 runs with both settings. The 
> conclusion is that I'm happy now as I'm able to route 850+ Mbps through 
> my router...

Changing the initial window is highly antisocial.  It's certainly not
good general-purpose advice for tuning TCP stacks and it's probably not
necessary to get the throughput you're looking for.

Is adjusting the socket buffer sizes alone not enough?

Thor