Re: Linux Tuning

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 02:56:08 +0100 (BST)

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> 1) Resource exhaustion. If you get more than 300 packets in 1/100 of a
> second, you overflow the backlog queue. You can raise this by messing
> with /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog, but how would you know to

You need to get 300 packets without exiting an interrupt handler. At this
point the kernel actually wants to drop packets - so its not 300 per HZ

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