On 2014-08-21, Federico Giannici <[email protected]> wrote: > We are using a firewall/qos server with a lot of HFSC queues. > We have just switched to the new queueing system of 5.5. > We'd like to get rid of custom kernels because now there is no longer > the limit of 64 HFSC classes, but I have recently read that there are > still limits to the efficacy of the queueing system with the standard > 100 HZ in systems with high speed connections. > > Is this still true? > If so, is there some way to calculate, or at least have an idea, of the > minimum HZ value required for a given output speed and queues parameters? > > Thanks. > >
Queues with the default HZ are OK with high speed connections. The problem is with *low* speed connections. I don't know how to calculate values though.

