[illumos-Developer] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 06:57:27PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> B M <b.maryniuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Joerg Schilling
> > <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > > I am not sure about your intention. I had a 2400 baud modem at home in 1986,
> > > this is 24 years ago.
> > >
> > > If you cannot donload the schillix iso because of size, you would have similar
> > > problems with the OpenSolaris source code.
> >
> > I mean, berlios.de is very slow. At least in Asia.
> 
> Well, berlios.de is connected to the internet via 155 MBit/s. If you are in a 
> German university or research institute, you could in theory get 12 MByte/s.
> This is what I get from east German universities...
> 
> I know from blastwave that supporting China was a problem before there was a 
> local mirror. There is a mirror at University Ulm that should have 2 GBit/s.
> It mway be worth to test this.
> 

>From Asia it probably depends a lot of *your* client settings,
ie. you need to tweak the tcp window size to be able to get good
speeds from abroad.

It's the common issue with 'big rtt' links and how tcp behaves on them.
I assume the ftp server is properly tweaked for big window sizes already.

-- Pasi