dummynet dropping too many packets

rihad rihad at mail.ru
Tue Oct 6 05:21:20 UTC 2009


> Eugene Grosbein wrote:

>> Try to increase net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen uptio 4096.
>>
> You sure? Packets are never dropped once I add "allow ip from any to 
> any" before pipes, effectively turning dummynet off. Yet I've doubled it 
> for starters (50->100) let's see if it works in an hour or so, when it's 
> 10:30 here.
> 

Besides,
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen: Maximum size of the IP input queue
but the drops have been occurring on the _output_.
I'll see in about 10 minutes if it's true or not.

I've also set up kern.hz=2000 in loader.conf the effects of which will 
be seen in an hour or so, when I'm permitted to reboot the box.


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