At 01:38 PM 10/11/01 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>[ jumping into the middle of this discussion... ]
>
>Mike Tancsa writes:
> > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen from 50 to 100. and there didnt seem to be
> > any positive results in terms of lessening the rate of
> > net.inet.ip.intr_queue_drops.
>
>This is consistent with the situation where packets are received
>at a rate faster than they are being consumed. No matter how big
>your queue is, it's going to fill up eventually and overflow, and
>all you're doing by increasing the queue length is adding latency
>to all of those packets that you do process.
Hi, thanks for the info. But wont I still pay a price, presumably at the
application layer for any packets that are lost and retransmitted ? Apart
from pinging the other side of the OC-3 or ethernet connection and
measuring the response time, how can I see how much latency is added by
increasing these buffers ?
---Mike
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