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Hi All,
I'm trying to figure out why RV.net is so slow under Linux.
It's the same speed (dial-up like or slower) with either Firefox or Konqueror on my Fedora 11 machine. The thing is if I access RV.net using Firefox on my Win XP machine it loads and displays just fine. The two machines are sharing the same internet connection so that points to a problem with Linux.
Same thing when I try it from work.
I posted this question on a Linux board and other users, as far away as Caracas Venezuela, reported the same problem.
I don't know of any other site that behaves this way.
Is this a known problem?
Thanks.
WVvan
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pulsar
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We've had others report the slowness problem, some using Linux and some using Windows Vista.
At least some of the Vista people reported the problem was corrected after they did all of the Vista updates.
On ocasion, I when I click on a link, the page will seem to hang. I click on my browser's Stop button and then click on the refresh button and the page loads quickly.
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MIne worked fine with Linux, and slow with Vista, until I changed back to Avast antivirus, from AVG's newer version.
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Which version of Linux are you using Camping Man?. I've personally had problem with Fedora 10 and 11 and others have reported problems with Ubuntu.
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Installed the Opera browser and tried it. No improvement.
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A little more info.
If the rv.net web page is long Firefox will slowly start to show it from the top down. Before it gets to the bottom of the page it times out and shows this error popup:
The connection was reset
* The Connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
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Solved!
At least for Fedora 11.
In a root terminal window enter these two commands:
echo "4096 16384 131072" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
echo "4096 87380 174760" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
The webpages should now display at normal speed.
You might have to restart your browser.
To make the changes permanent, add these two lines to /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
More detail here: Window scaling and here: http://inodes.org/blog/2006/09/06/tcp-window-scaling-and-kernel-2617/
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Thank you for all of your investigation and the update.
Tom
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Wow!!!! After adding those lines to sysctl.conf I think RV.NET is running faster under linux than it does in Windows XP.
Thank you for the fix.
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Having the same issue running Ubuntu 9.04.
Found this topic it it solved the problem andexplained it easier for me.
Post #33, a little copy and paste into terminal and now life is good on
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