What is the timeout of TCP in freeBSD?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 19:13:08 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Karthik Reddy <22karthikreddy at gmail.com>wrote:

> When I change the kern.hz to 50, the timeout is happening at 76sec. Could
> you please elaborate on kern.hz and how does it effect timing.
>

Lower frequency so less opportunities for errors to be introduced, although
you may have greater network latency at that setting.

Some setting under sysctl kern.timecounter and/or sysctl kern.eventtimer
should be able to allow the guest to run better if the hypervisor can't do
it.

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Adam Vande More


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