On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:02 +0200, Bazy wrote:
Hi Chris,
Try setting txqueuelen to 1000 on the interfaces and see if you still get a lot of packet loss.
Yes, good point and well worth a try. Rereading Chris's post about "250Mbps" and "forty queues", the "egress" could well be bumping the end of a default fifo line. If 1000 is too high for your kit try pushing it upwards gradually from the default of 100 (?) but back off if you get drops or strangeness in ifconfig output on the egress i/f. I append grep-ped ifconfig outputs into a file every hour on a cron job until I'm happy that strangeness doesn't happen, they never do when you're watching sadly. TC problems aren't always about the TC itself, the physical interfaces are inherently part of the "system", as my long rambling 5am+ up-all-night-over-ssh post about reseating NICs was trying to hint at. Nice one Bazy Gord