From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 7 11:21:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 916) id BC62B37B401; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:21:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:21:29 -0800 From: Prafulla Deuskar To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Jason Carroll Subject: Re: Trouble with gigabit cards Message-ID: <20021107112129.A8657@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20021105181641.C78733@hub.freebsd.org> <20021107134624.A14591-100000@digitas.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021107134624.A14591-100000@digitas.harvard.edu>; from jecarrol@digitas.harvard.edu on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:50:33PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-RC on an i386 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 If you don't want to go the sysctl route Change IFQ_MAXLEN to something reasonable in /usr/src/sys/net/if.h and recompile the kernel. There was discussion on net.inet.ip.intr_queue values recently on -net. So you might want to go through that thread. Thanks, Prafulla Jason Carroll [jecarrol@digitas.harvard.edu] wrote: > > Sorry for the slow reply; one of my email addresses seems to get rejected > by freebsd.org. > > It seems like net.inet.ip.intr_queue counts exactly the packets that are > dropped. I set the ...maxlen variable that appears to go with it up to > 200 (from 50), and this seems to have solved the problem. Any guidelines > for reasonable values? Is there some way I can set this in the kernel > other than by using sysctl? > > Thanks for your help! > Jason Carroll > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Prafulla Deuskar wrote: > > > What does sysctl net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops show? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message