How to Tune Snow Leopard’s Network Performance

Author: , May 2nd, 2010

I wanted to be sure that my mac was using the WAN for all it was worth. I set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: [code]kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=768000 net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072 net.inet.tcp.recvspace=512000 net.inet.tcp.win_scale_factor=8[/code] These commands can be set in real time without a reboot. Simply call sysctl as root from the command prompt in Terminal.. For example: [code]# sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.win_scale_factor=8[/code] […]