Tuning and testing the FreeBSD 6 TCP stack
Lawrence Stewart, Healy, James · Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) · 2024
Tuning an operating system’s network stack is crucial in order to achieve optimum performance from network intensive applications. This report discusses some of the key factors that affect network performance of FreeBSD 6.x based hosts. It then goes on to explain how to tune the FreeBSD 6.x network stack and how to easily test and evaluate the changes made.