Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:43:09 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Freebsd-Net@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds Message-ID: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKMEKLJAAC.davids@webmaster.com> In-Reply-To: <20071221234347.GS25053@tnn.dglawrence.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I'm just an observer, and I may be confused, but it seems to me that this is motion in the wrong direction (at least, it's not going to fix the actual problem). As I understand the problem, once you reach a certain point, the system slows down *every* 30.999 seconds. Now, it's possible for the code to cause one slowdown as it cleans up, but why does it need to clean up so much 31 seconds later? Why not find/fix the actual bug? Then work on getting the yield right if it turns out there's an actual problem for it to fix. If the problem is that too much work is being done at a stretch and it turns out this is because work is being done erroneously or needlessly, fixing that should solve the whole problem. Doing the work that doesn't need to be done more slowly is at best an ugly workaround. Or am I misunderstanding? DS
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKMEKLJAAC.davids>