From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:05:46 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20160222150546.GA2988@polynum.com> References: <20160222130248.GA2375@polynum.com> <3fc53e93-a8be-4f73-86f8-a3aa20ac3388@email.android.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3fc53e93-a8be-4f73-86f8-a3aa20ac3388@email.android.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] rtl8169 gbe slow Topicbox-Message-UUID: 879c921c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 05:20:40AM -0800, erik quanstrom wrote: > why? what's the evidence? > If I download from vanilla Plan9 (running on bare metal) data from _another http server_, I have correct results. So the problem is not with Plan9 per se, but downloading from _this_ site (and it is mine!) and under Plan9. If there was a problem with Plan9, I will have bad speed from whatever server under Plan9. But it is not the case. So there is something at the intersection (&&) of Plan9 and this site. And it can be Plan9 identifier (client ID) triggering something on the server side leading to throttling the connection (or my DSL provider throttling to the server provider; but this doesn't explain why others have also poor results connecting from Plan9 while I guess they are not with the same DSL provider as me---SFR here---and this doesn't explain why with the same connection, downloading under NetBSD doesn't show the problem---unless, once more, "plan9/hget" is considered a bittorrent client or a robot and is causing the throttling, but this would seem a "general" rule then). Yes, it could be something with Plan9 at some upper IP level. But before searching the needle in the hay stack, I have to rule out a possible throttling on the server side (that I don't own or manage; I only lend room on it; I have hence to ask the provider if there is something, in their configuration, that could explain this). -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.arts-po.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C