-[ Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:40:40PM +0100, ri...@happyleptic.org ]---- > And I also experienced a huge packet drop whenever the throughput raised > above 50MB/sec (up to 100MB/sec). By huge, I mean almost 50% of total > received packets (ie. one third of the packets were lost according to > pcap stats).
So it appeared that the packet drop was due to too much processing of the packets. If I aleviate the processing going on for each packet then the numbers of dropped packets can be made as low as wanted. So much for the noise. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
