* Steve Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-11 19:08]: > Henning Brauer wrote: >> >> congestion in what sense? the congestion counter increasing? this isnot >> necessarily a problem, it just must not grow fast. andof course you want >> to bump your ipintrq length. >> > Yes, the congestion counter is what I meant. It's increasing at around 7/s > when the traffic we send it now is at peak time, which is about 40% of our > total traffic that we will be sending to that box. The > net.inet.ip.ifq.drops counter is increasing at a length of 100/s right now, > but I'm not at that peak time either. Having those counters at that level > seemed pretty high to me, but is it the case? Or out of 35-60K packets per > seconds it's a number that I should not worry about?
nothing you HAVE to worry about. > As for the ipintrq length, I've tried different values between 1000-3000 > and values between those didn't seem to affect the rate of the PF > congestion counter. I'm not sure how many packets your cards can put into ipintrq in one int. 3000 might still be not enough. watch net.inet.ip.ifq.*, especially len. teh question is wether you see bursts or constant pressure. -- 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
