Re: packet drop with intel gigabit / marwell gigabit

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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:

options HZ=2000
#v-

regards,

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