chris z Posted July 4, 2003 Report Share Posted July 4, 2003 tcp window scaling.....is there any benefit to turning this option on (IE: increased surfing speed)? if so, what is the proper way to do it? right now mine is set to 0, or off. i understand a little about what scaling does, but not enough to know if it's beneficial to play around with it. i was doing some tweak tests at DSL reports & came across this faq page about Linux performance tweaks www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html . i know how to do these things in Windoze, via registry hacks, but i'm lost when it comes to Linux. my speed, throughput, etc. is screaming right now (Verizon DSL.....734kb down......194kb up), but if i can squeeze any more out of it, hey, why not?! any info/help with this would be appreciated, as always. thanks, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 4, 2003 Report Share Posted July 4, 2003 THANK YOU! for the link. I found those in /proc but didn't know exactly what to do with them as far as boolean, string etc.... Bacically just like it says. As root in a terminal issue echo <value> > /proc/x/x/x like they show echo 8388608 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max Use cat to check what the current setting is and echo > to change it [root@localhost /]# cat /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max 65535 [root@localhost /]# echo 8388608 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max I'm pretty sure you need to set those at reboot somewhere, either your own script or /etc/rc.d/rc.local Now, lets see what I can do to this dialup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted July 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2003 you're welcome for the link. my next question would be, it shows how to turn on tcp window scaling echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling but it doesn't say how to turn it off, should i not like the results. does the "1" after echo mean "on"? if so, would "0" mean off? please advise before i dig myself a hole that i don't feel like digging myself out of right now? thanks, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 5, 2003 Report Share Posted July 5, 2003 exactly; echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling would turn it off. BTW, nothing I do seems to increase my speed any on dialup. Guess dialup is already pretty much optimized, which is a bummer cuz I was hoping to at least get linux as fast as windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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