From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 6 17:21:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672CC1065693 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rihad@mail.ru) Received: from mx33.mail.ru (mx33.mail.ru [94.100.176.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB8C8FC21 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.25.27.27] (port=34657 helo=[217.25.27.27]) by mx33.mail.ru with asmtp id 1MvDj3-0006Hj-00; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:21:25 +0400 Message-ID: <4ACB7C8E.6090905@mail.ru> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:21:18 +0500 From: rihad User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <4AC9E29B.6080908@mail.ru> <20091005123230.GA64167@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4AC9EFDF.4080302@mail.ru> <4ACA2CC6.70201@elischer.org> <4ACAFF2A.1000206@mail.ru> <4ACB0C22.4000008@mail.ru> <20091006100726.GA26426@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <4ACB42D2.2070909@mail.ru> <20091006142152.GA42350@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <4ACB6223.1000709@mail.ru> <20091006161240.GA49940@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected X-Mras: Ok Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Eugene Grosbein , Luigi Rizzo , Julian Elischer Subject: Re: dummynet dropping too many packets X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:21:27 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > and on current high-performance systems the hardware tends to > take care of that already pretty well (i.e., most modern 10gbps cards). > Do you think that us switching to 10gbps cards would solve the problem discussed? We're currently at 500-550 mbps and rising, so we might as well switch to it now without waiting to hit the ceiling.