On 1/25/2011 8:21 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> Some time back, I was with the impression Linux has top performing
> network stack, whereas winblows did not.
>
> It turns out the default networking does not seem to be so good after all.
>
> I was researching the reasons why SCP transfers get stalled and found
> few lines to be added to /etc/sysctl.conf file. After adding the lines
> and "restarting" the sysctl, my SCP transfer speeds increased from
> 300KB/s to 1.6MB/s. Quite a big difference for networking system which
> was supposed to be top notch from the get-go.
Try seeing what kind of numbers you get with iPerf before and after.
It is a tool built specifically to test network performance.
J
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