Chapter 9. Monitoring and Tuning Communications I/O

This chapter discusses several different communications protocols and ways to monitor and tune them. It contains the following major sections:

• "UDP/TCP/IP Performance Overview"
• "TCP and UDP Performance Tuning"

• "UDP, TCP/IP, and mbuf Tuning Parameters Summary"
• "NFS Tuning"
• "Serving Diskless Workstations"
• "Tuning Asynchronous Connections for High-Speed Transfers"
• "Using netpmon to Evaluate Network Performance"
• "Using iptrace to Analyze Performance Problems"