On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 07:55:57PM +0500, rihad wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 06:47:23PM +0500, rihad wrote:
> >>Hi, we have around 500-600 mbit/s traffic flowing through a 7.1R Dell 
> >>PowerEdge w/ 2 GigE bce cards. There are currently around 4 thousand ISP 
> >>users online limited by dummynet pipes of various speeds. According to 
> >>netstat -s output around 500-1000 packets are being dropped every second 
> >>(this accounts for wasting around 7-12 mbit/s worth of traffic according 
> >>to systat -ifstat):
> >
> >At those speeds you might be hitting various limits with your
> >config (e.g. 50k nmbclusters is probably way too small for
> >4k users -- means you have an average of 10-15 buffers per user;
> >the queue size of 350kbytes = 2.6Mbits means 2.6 seconds of buffering,
> >which is quite high besides the fact that in order to scale to 4k users
> >you would need over 1GB of kernel memory just for the buffers).
> 
> 
> top output:
> Mem: 2037M Active, 1248M Inact, 450M Wired, 184M Cache, 214M Buf, 17M Free
> 
> I guess we're quite far from reaching 1GB of kernel memory.

of course, you'd have to configure also 500k nmbclusters (and then
probably this would not fit)

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