Subject: Re: IFQ_MAXLEN: How large can it be?
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/16/2006 11:49:25
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:59:41AM +0100, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> On 15.11-22:56, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > BTW, Christoph, where do you see these drops ? On the IP input queue, or
> > interfaces output queues ?
> > 
> 
> Where can I see the count of dropped packets from the output queues? 
> 
> If 'netstat -id': they're all 0.

Then there's no dropped paquets at this point

> 
> The dropped packets I reported where all on the ipintrq.

OK, so maybe increasing the input queue size can be of some help to
absorb bursts. how many interfaces with lots of input traffic do you have ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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