1 |
Yes, I also forgot that I had been subscribed to this list. |
2 |
To get a topic going I was at work and I argued that we should disable |
3 |
TCP timestamps. I was discussing in a meeting that this would cut back |
4 |
(perhaps very slightly) on the amount of work that the system has to do |
5 |
before sending a packet out. In a high traffic system (like a file |
6 |
server or a mail server or in my case a Oracle Database), not having to |
7 |
throw this on every packet should increase performance ever so slightly. |
8 |
Disabling this would benefit security, as the attacker would not be able |
9 |
to gather the up time from the targeted system. |
10 |
Like I said this might be a slight increase, but its an increase |
11 |
none-the-less, and when you have a DBA crying about poor network speed |
12 |
or IO, or the system is too heavily loaded, then this keeps him quiet |
13 |
for a few days. :) |
14 |
Any thoughts??? |
15 |
-- |
16 |
gentoo-performance@l.g.o mailing list |