From owner-freebsd-net Fri Oct 12 15:33:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CAD37B403 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.143.238.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.143.238]) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00303; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9CMVgo06478; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:31:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:31:42 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Archie Cobbs , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange results with increased net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen Message-ID: <20011012153142.B6274@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011011164834.0728c2e0@marble.sentex.ca> <200110120116.f9C1GEv18196@arch20m.dellroad.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011012121150.072325d0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011012121150.072325d0@marble.sentex.ca>; from mike@sentex.net on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:13:59PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:13:59PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:16 PM 10/11/01 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > >If the forwarding path is maxed out, then it is the application layer's > >responsibility to back off (think TCP). > > Is it better for the networking layer to deal with this (potentially > introducing some latency) as opposed to letting the application ? I think Mike probably meant the transport layer, not application, since he was talking about TCP. The transport layer is the right place to do this. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message