On 2012-08-14, Michel Blais <mic...@targointernet.com> wrote: > I maybe found something, congestion seem high when I check with pftcl -si. > > I don't think it's hardware related since CPU is under 50% use. > > I saw this tread where Henning suggest to raise net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen > so I raided it to 512 instead of 256. > http://old.nabble.com/PF-congestion-question-td7088168.html > > It's a old thread so I wanted to know if it's still a good idea to raise > this sysctl value.
If you are seeing increases in net.inet.ip.ifq.drops, then yes it usually is a good idea to increase the queue length.
