xl(4) & polling
Matthew D. Fuller
fullermd at over-yonder.net
Wed May 11 19:32:21 PDT 2005
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.
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