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Re: Apple Catalina Appears to Introduce Massive Jitter


From: David Curado <davec () curado org>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:14:25 -0400

I was curious, so poked at this... my results from a macbook pro 2019
running Catalina 10.15.3

sudo /usr/local/sbin/mtr -r 10.200.200.200

Start: 2020-10-29T14:09:08-0400
HOST: bos-mp36c                   Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 10.200.200.200             0.0%    10   11.9  63.7   9.0 340.2 104.1

sudo sysctl net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_tx=0
net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_tx: 1 -> 0
sudo sysctl net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_rx=0
net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_rx: 1 -> 0
sudo ifconfig en0 -rxcsum

sudo /usr/local/sbin/mtr -r 10.200.200.200

Start: 2020-10-29T14:09:43-0400
HOST: bos-mp36c                   Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 10.200.200.200             0.0%    10   19.8  13.6   9.8  20.9   4.5

So, seems to make things better. =-)



On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:50 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com> wrote:



On 10/29/20 16:08, J. Hellenthal wrote:

I believe I have seen the same thing with a Mid 2015 11,4 running
catalina. Not diagnosing further because I could not find a reason for it
fast enough and not sure if it really had an impact at the moment…. but
could you try the following


sudo sysctl net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_tx=0
sudo sysctl net.link.generic.system.hwcksum_rx=0
sudo ifconfig en0 -rxcsum

Thanks, I'll have a sniff.

If you have some specific tests to run I would be willing to run them
here on Big Sur with the same laptop but I have nothing now that runs
Catalina

One of my mates found the same issue on Big Sur (beta) on a 2013 MacBook
Pro.

Just a simple mtr test to your local home router's IP address should,
over wi-fi, should show you the jitter.

Mark.


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