From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 5 17:14:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C711F1065673 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:14:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75C18FC18 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:14:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FCC1A000B14 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:14:50 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.sd73.bc.ca Received: from coal.localnet (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B1F1A000B0B for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:14:49 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:14:48 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.26-1-686; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <49AED3B1.1060209@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> <200903041318.23083.fjwcash@gmail.com> <36634.62.206.221.107.1236237469.squirrel@anubis.getmyip.com> In-Reply-To: <36634.62.206.221.107.1236237469.squirrel@anubis.getmyip.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903050914.48406.fjwcash@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ipfw (dummynet) adds delay, but not configured to do so X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:14:51 -0000 On March 4, 2009 11:17 pm Sebastian Mellmann wrote: > >> > Is there any chance to change this clock tick to a lower value? > >> > I think it's the 'HZ=' option in the kernel config isn't it? > >> > >> yes. i believe there is a tunable (so you don't need to rebuild > >> the kernel) but i do not remember exactly which one. > > > > kern.hz in /boot/loader.conf > > I only got an empty loader.conf file on my system. > > How is the syntax of the 'kern.hz' option? grep kern /boot/defaults/loader.conf: #kern.hz="100" # Set the kernel interval timer rate Thus, just add kern.hz=1000 into /boot/loader.conf to have it set at boot time. -- Freddie fjwcash@gmail.com