Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:42:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: freebsd@ddm.wox.org (Dave Chapeskie) Cc: mike@sentex.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange results with increased net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen Message-ID: <200110121842.f9CIgAI21150@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20011012143302.A8938@ddm.wox.org> from Dave Chapeskie at "Oct 12, 2001 2:33: 2 pm"
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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:56:32AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Is it better to drop > > packets when the queue is full and let the various applications behind me > > figure it out, or is it better to add some latency at the network layer so > > the apps dont have to deal with it. > > If you find yourself hitting the queue limit I'd suggest using RED or > GRED with ipfw to drop packets more intelligently before the hard limit we are talking about a different queue here, which is not managed by ipfw (now you are actually giving me an idea on adding this feature...) cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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