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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:22:24 +0100
From:      Stanislaw Halik <weirdo@tehran.lain.pl>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit
Message-ID:  <20060319132224.GA57147@tehran.lain.pl>
In-Reply-To: <000401c64a91$c3962c30$0201a8c0@oxy>
References:  <000a01c64a81$45eb6850$0201a8c0@oxy> <441BFF26.90807@mac.com> <000e01c64a8f$1b2bec80$0201a8c0@oxy> <000401c64a91$c3962c30$0201a8c0@oxy>

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On Sat, Mar 18, 2006, OxY wrote:
> i increased hz from 2000 to 5000, now the packet loss is decreased
> from 5-6% to 0.6-0,8% !!!
> huge improve!
> should i increase hz more?

won't increasing HZ over 1000 break TCP support? from
<20051216134759.795206f3.dokas@oitsec.umn.edu> on freebsd-pf@:

#v+
> So it's not that far off, the server seems to increment timestamps at
> 0.5 ms per tick (2 kHz), instead of the RFC mandated 1 ms (1 kHz).
[...]
Bingo (I think).  I found the following in the firewall's kernel config:
 =20
  options HZ=3D2000
#v-

regards,

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w.

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