On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:36:30AM +0100 I heard the voice of Pete French, and lo! it spake thus: > > 100 should be fine. 10 would be a bit too much overkill. > > I think you have this the wrong way round - the smaller this number > is the *less* often it will poll the device. Its in hertz remember. > So 10 is only polling ten times a second, whereas 100 is polling 100 > times a second. If you are getting dropped packets then *increase* > the number so that it polls more often. And, for that matter, HZ affects an awful lot of things; it's not just a knob for network polling. Setting it to 10 would probably have really unpleasant side effects. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd_at_over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.Received on Thu May 12 2005 - 00:32:21 UTC
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