Subject: Re: kern/34164: unconnected ippp? interfaces hang onto pakets to be send
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/08/2006 17:55:01
The following reply was made to PR kern/34164; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/34164: unconnected ippp? interfaces hang onto pakets to be send
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:50:34 +0200
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:30:02PM +0000, Frank Kardel wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/34164; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
> To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: kern/34164: unconnected ippp? interfaces hang onto pakets to
> be send
> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:26:28 +0200
>
> Additional datapoint: ping -f -c 1000 <ipaddr> manage to queue 256 mbufs
> at the interface before being out
> of sendbuffer space.
> Does it make sense to queue so many pakets(mbufs)?
isn't it because of
$ sysctl net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen
net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen = 256