On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:35:22PM +0200, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> On 26.10-16:19, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> > ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> > # netstat -q
> > arpintrq:
> >         queue length: 0
> >         maximum queue length: 50
> >         packets dropped: 826
> > ipintrq:
> >         queue length: 0
> >         maximum queue length: 256
> >         packets dropped: 91897332
> > ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> 
> sysctl seems to report this number also:
> 
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> # sysctl -a |grep -i ifq 
> net.inet.ip.ifq.len = 0
> net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen = 256
> net.inet.ip.ifq.drops = 91897332
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> 
> The options(4) manpage says the default is 50. Isn't this
> correct anymore? Should I send-pr this?
> 
> I tried 
> 
> # sysctl -w net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=512
> 
> I'll watch if this helps now.

I would sent it even larger. If you have several wm(4) cards, I think
you should make this at last 256 * the number of adapters.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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