[Ti] Speed up

mac2 mail mac2 at oryx.cc
Thu Jul 17 14:05:54 PDT 2003


Robert,

You dropped the leading slash "/" from Loren's post (see below).

Jerry K



On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 03:33  PM, Robert J. Fisher wrote:

> Where do I find this etc/rc.common
> --
> Robert J. Fisher
> fisherr at telus.net
> Or
> mediacreations2000 at telus.net
> Home of Media Creations 2000
> http://www3.telus.net/mediacreations2000
>
>> From: Loren Schooley <loren at flash.net>
>> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium 
>> List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:02:40 -0500
>> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Ti] Speed up
>>
>> On 7/17/03 1:27 PM, "Michael Bigley" <wakinyan at fuse.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> I know this is an old subject, but I have found very few who 
>>>> utilize and
>>>> take advantage of it, and that is using sysctl to boost browser and 
>>>> other
>>>> download speeds. I tested it out with different numbers and the 
>>>> results
>>>> proved accordingly. This hack works!
>>>
>>> Are these changes written to a file so they survive reboots, etc?
>>
>> No. What I had to do was open /etc/rc.common, and at the bottom paste
>>
>> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536 > /dev/null
>> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536 > /dev/null
>> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=524288 > /dev/null
>> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 > /dev/null
>> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.udp.recvspace=73728 > /dev/null



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