On 26.10-20:27, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> >         packets dropped: 91897332
> > ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> > 
> > Ugh! Seems like a lot of dropped packets on the last line.
> > Can you explain, where exactly that these packets were
> > dropped?
> 
> When a packet is received, the interrupt handler for the adapter places it
> in the IP input queue, which is processed later at a lower interrupt
> priority. What happens here is, I guess, that you have several adapters,
> each with a large receive ring. When the interrupt handler is going to
> process the receive ring of the adapters, and as each have several packets
> it reaches the ipintrq length limit.

Thanks for the explanation Manuel. :-)

Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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