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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:25:28 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.wurldlink.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Latency problem with traffic shaping (ipfw/dummynet)
Message-ID:  <20040321002527.A20048@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040320124422.W8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>; from vince@oahu.wurldlink.net on Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:56:08PM -1000
References:  <20040320141922.B7314@xorpc.icir.org> <20040320124422.W8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>

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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:56:08PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
...
> > the above configuration means that if queue 1 is getting a bandwidth
> > X, then queue 2 will get 0.99X, queue 3 will get 0.98X, queue
> > 4 will get 0.97X. Hardly matching any reasonable definition of high-mid-low
> > priority!
> 
> 	Hmm, I think I did it that way because 100 is the largest number
> and I didn't decide on how many queues I may add later so the numbers will
> change but does the weight number really mean 99%, 98%, 97% priority?  So
> should it really be 66, 33, and 1?

no, the weights mean exactly what i wrote above, and they
are weights not priorities. As to the values to use,
that's entirely up to you.

	cheers
	luigi



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