Storms of Perfection wrote: > Ok. Since I have a limited hardware/software set at my finger tips. I can > generate an attack on my machine (such as a synflood or something) to see > what type of reponses I can get by setting it up and down. I think this may > apply to this feature, to help the machine withstand attacks (and possibly > have performance related gains/decreases)
Under no circumstances can increasing HZ make the machine less vulnerable to high packet-rate traffic. In fact, it will performe even slightly worse. Try using interrupt coalescing instead (on cards that support it), or even better, try Luigi's polling code. Marko To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
