On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-02-04, Sebastiano Pomata <[email protected]> wrote: > > As doublechecking, I tried with another fast server inside the wan > > network of our academy, and I'm getting almost the same results > > (while absolute speeds are different from before, the gap is almost > > the same in magnitude). > > > > I've read the page about tcptune, it's pretty clear now (values are > > almost the same I edited), still not having clear why on default > > OpenBSD the transfer rates are so low. > > we try to have safe defaults for the varioous machines/arch that > can run OpenBSD. > > we would need some kind of auto-tuning to incrrease the defaults, > and don't have that yet. > I really can understand this, for the sake of system portability and so on. Anyway, I really hardly understand why, without touching any of the default settings, download rate from every server would never overcome the value of 400 kB/s. Is it all due to the tcp windows size?
