Dear Friends, I have recently switched from Win2K to RHL9 and (willingly, happily) going through the migration pains. To me, response time of opening Mozilla, Quanta, Openoffice.org and some other GUI tools which I use, seems slower to me compared to opening IE5, Hotdog etc in Win2K on a dual boot machine. I have a full installation of RHL9 with Gnome desktop. Do I need to do some tuning etc.? I am also playing with KNOPPIX (hard disk install, desktop=KDE) on another computer. Its response time seems a little better then RH. What am I missing? Do I need to do a bit of tuning? Thanks and regards, Armaghan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mason Schmitt" <sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Howto: Quicker web browsing, slower FTP traffic? > Check out the "wondershaper" and the LARTC (Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic > Control) mailing list and website. The mailing list is quite high traffic > but a wealth of information. The wonder shaper does a bit of traffic shaping > and prioritization. > > http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ > http://lartc.org/ > > > So really, happiness right now is just priority service for HTTP traffic. > > Go to the head of the line, and all that, since everything else can take an > > extra week to download without causing us any inconvenience. > > > Another possibility is just setting up plain old TOS. I use shorewall as my > firewall and I have interactive protocols such as ssh set up for > "Minimize-Delay (16)" and bandwidth intensive ones such as ftp-date set to > "Maximize-Throughput (8)". You could do much the same thing, substituting > http for ssh (or in addition to). > > > I have heard some terms thrown around, but have no knowledge yet. Is this > > possible (I assume it is)? Is what I want traffic shaping, or quality of > > service, or TCP flags... what is it? And, of course, is there something > > somewhere that will tell me how to make it work? > > > Linux has quite an impressive set of traffic control features and there are > numerous projects on the go to improve the featureset all the time. The > LARTC site and mailing list are going to be your best resource for this sort > of stuff. > > -- > Mason > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
