socket options & read raw

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Mon Aug 10 14:39:30 GMT 1998


> I didn't expect an instant fix or whatever. I haven't even said it's a
> bug at any point. But a quick reply telling me that he received the logs 
> and will take care of the problem in 1999 or whatever would have been 
> nice :)

trust me: a quick reply times 50 per day, minimum, takes more time off
other priorities.  sorry, there's not much that can be done without
additional help.  remember, we do this because we want to, not because we
get paid to.

> I agree. But you got me wrong I think. This isn't really about tuning. 
> Without these settings, the Samba server can be, basically, useless 
> for quite a number of people out there. I hear from Linux, AIX and
> Solaris
> users and they all say that it changes throughput by a factor of 3-10
> with
> programs that ran dog slow before.

freebsd gives 10k per second loading netscape without "socket options =
TCP_NODELAY" and 300k per second with. 




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