On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:04:46PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > The goal is to make sources of traffic to slow down, this is the only > > way to descrease drops - any finite queue may be overhelmed with traffic. > > Taildrop does not really help with this. GRED does much better. > > i think the first problem here is figure out _why_ we have > the drops, as the original poster said that queues are configured > with a very large amount of buffer (and i think there is a > misconfiguration somewhere because the mbuf stats do not make > sense)
That may be very simple, f.e. wide uplink channel and policy that dictates slower client speeds. Any taildrop queue would drop lots of packets. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
