* Steve Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-09 00:25]: > Sorry, I hadn't noticed that I had removed that part of information by > mistake when I split the debug information in a different file. I had been > told about that setting and had seen the thread, which stated around 256MB > per gigabit interface. I had tested from 1000 up to 2500, and although it > did reduce the congestion a lot, I was still seeing over 1 per second, > which I can't consider that safe for production. I haven't tested higher > than 2500 though.
you can try a bit more. modern nics tend to shovel a lot of packets per interrupt, and you have 6 of them. don't blindly increase, be careful, but don't stop to early either. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam