Daniel Melameth <daniel <at> melameth.com> writes: > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu <at> spacehopper.org> wrote: > > In my (admittedly very limited) testing with the new queueing system, > > it hasn't done very well with low bandwidth queues (ADSL type speeds) that > > used to work OK with altq (symptom, packets being assigned to queues as > > expected, but rates not being controlled). Next step in my testing there > > will be to build a kernel with a higher HZ value (faster timer) but > > I haven't got round to that yet. > > I have observed similar issues, which makes this less usable. On a > box with a 1+GHz CPU, what are the disadvantages of doing this?
OK, I've tried this with "option HZ=10000" now (after getting utterly fed up with my ADSL upstream getting overwhelmed). The main disadvantage that I can see is that you're not running GENERIC. The main advantage is that queueing actually works again...
