swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Aloha Guy
Greetings everyone: I am planning to build a few new boxes which will run -RELEASE and -CURRENT and I have a question about the swap file. In the past, I had always used a swap partition of 256MB since I originally had 128MB system memory in the 1990's but my system has been upgraded to 2GB an

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Aloha Guy
really not offer anything? John - Original Message From: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Aloha Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 12:16:37 PM Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition Aloha Guy wrote: > Gre

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Aloha Guy
nts of RAM. John - Original Message From: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Aloha Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 2:28:47 PM Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition Aloha Guy wrote: > Thanks for the input.

FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Aloha Guy
Greetings everyone: I'm using a FreeBSD based notebook (P4-M2.6Ghz, 2GB RAM) on the built in 3COM 920c (905c compatible) using the xl0 driver with the firewall enabled and set to open and rc.conf basically has: xl0 configured as 208.204.x.224 netmask 255.255.255.0 with the alias 192.168.0.1

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-25 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > Any ideas what is causing this? Is it the xl0 driver because I've > used FreeBSD machines as ethernet routers before with a similar > setup except there was no NAT involved and used the fxp driver

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: > Here is the HZ setting: > > kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 } There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond level granularit

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Aloha Guy wrote: > Charles Swiger wrote: >> There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond >> level >> granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to se

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-27 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > Already tried that and it did improve things a little. I tried > setting the HZ to 1000 and it didn't make much of a difference. Is > there a larger number that actually works well? You can try hi

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > You're right that additional delay while adding a hop is to be > expected, which is less than 0.1ms to the FreeBSD box but everything > past the FreeBSD machine is adding atleast 5ms up to 300ms

Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency

2004-02-26 Thread Aloha Guy
Chris Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Aloha Guy wrote: > > What do you have HZ set to (see sysctl kern.clockrate)? I think I > > remember your original message showing you using pipes and queues > > and the HZ setting can affect those. Also see if y