Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-17 Thread Andy Furniss
Andy Furniss wrote: Hmm - I did some testing on old kernels, though I know I sorted it to 2ms I haven't got that kernel anymore and setting a vanilla 2.4.26 to hz 500 made the forwarded traffic cycle with 5ms not 2ms, local doesn't cycle but isn't constant and gives 5ms varience. Running the

Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-16 Thread Andy Furniss
Andy Furniss wrote: You are comparing two completely different ->systems<-. Please stop being focused on HZ, ok ? HZ does not rule the priority of the in-kernel tasks. OK - It was just that changing HZ sorted it on 2.4. Hmm - I did some testing on old kernels, though I know I sorted it to 2

Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-15 Thread Andy Furniss
Francois Romieu wrote: Andy Furniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] They will be the same as connexent haven't touched the drivers for years, Patrick ported them to 2.6 and a diff doesn't show any difference involving HZ that I can see. You are comparing two completely different ->systems<-. Pl

Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-15 Thread Francois Romieu
Andy Furniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > They will be the same as connexent haven't touched the drivers for > years, Patrick ported them to 2.6 and a diff doesn't show any difference > involving HZ that I can see. You are comparing two completely different ->systems<-. Please stop being focuse

Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-15 Thread Andy Furniss
Francois Romieu wrote: Andy Furniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [ping latencies fluctuates with conexant adsl driver] Does anyone know what could be causing this. You will have a hard time figuring it and many people (me included) will keep a good distance with an issue which includes > 400 ko of

Re: ping behaviour

2005-07-14 Thread Francois Romieu
Andy Furniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [ping latencies fluctuates with conexant adsl driver] > Does anyone know what could be causing this. You will have a hard time figuring it and many people (me included) will keep a good distance with an issue which includes > 400 ko of unknown gcc 3 compiled bina

ping behaviour

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Furniss
I long ago noticed that if I ping somewhere on the internet for any length of time I see a pattern - the ping times will slowly rise then fall by 10ms and repeat the process. I never asked before because my dsl modem taints the kernel - but I think testing I did on 2.4s could mean that it's no