Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:32:18 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xl(4) & polling Message-ID: <20050512023218.GD2624@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <E1DVoZq-0003gu-Ff@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <4281B873.7020208@gmail.com> <E1DVoZq-0003gu-Ff@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:36:30AM +0100 I heard the voice of Pete French, and lo! it spake thus: > > 100 should be fine. 10 would be a bit too much overkill. > > I think you have this the wrong way round - the smaller this number > is the *less* often it will poll the device. Its in hertz remember. > So 10 is only polling ten times a second, whereas 100 is polling 100 > times a second. If you are getting dropped packets then *increase* > the number so that it polls more often. And, for that matter, HZ affects an awful lot of things; it's not just a knob for network polling. Setting it to 10 would probably have really unpleasant side effects. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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