Re: Serious rate problems with both CBQ and TBF

["Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Kris Boutilier wrote:

>  I'm now intensely confused! I've re-read most of the list archive and
> can't see any other report of this problem so I'm inclined to point the
> finger at something particular to this box, such as an insufficiently
> fine grain system clock (relative to the NIC bandwidth?), bad
> interaction with send timers in the updated NIC driver or similar. Take
> a look at the configuration below and see if anything catches your eye
> please:

	When working with 100Mbit interfaces change 
HZ = 100 to HZ = 1024 in param.h (include/asm-i386/param.h for x86
platforms).  A 10ms clock is not fine grained enough for 100Mbit
interfaces, ~ 1ms works much better.

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