From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 31 2:52:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F40814C23 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 02:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA35060; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:50:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:50:52 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Jonathan Lemon , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP In-Reply-To: <25716.936049445@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <19990830164043.11777@right.PCS>, Jonathan Lemon writes: > >On Aug 08, 1999 at 11:36:30PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <19990830162125.52517@right.PCS>, Jonathan Lemon writes: > >> > I've just committed the revised TCP timer code. There are some > >> >user visible changes: > >> > > >> > User visible TCP timers are now in units of the system clock > >> > (10ms for the i386) > >> > >> Please, can we have them be in milliseconds ? > > > >Wouldn't this mean writing a sysctl proc for each variable, > >instead of directly changing the underlying integer? I did > >consider this, but wasn't sure if it would be worth the effort. > > Yes, you'd have to, but considering that HZ is 1024 on alpha > and 100 on i386 I think it is well worth the effort... Actually on the alpha, HZ is whatever the firmware tells us. Its often 1024 but I remember SimOS used to pretend it was 1200 for some reason. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message