Re: VM tuning for Linux routers

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:35:48 +0100

In article <20011118145400.A23181@se1.cogenit.fr> you wrote:
> Think about forwarding between GigaE and FastE. Think about overflow and
> bad irq latency. I wouldn't cut buffering at l2 as it averages the peaks.
> Different trade-offs make sense of course.

I think in that case increasing the buffers is important:

net.core.rmem_max=262144
net.core.wmem_max=262144

default:

optmem_max:10240
rmem_default:65535
rmem_max:65535
wmem_default:65535
wmem_max:65535

Greetings
Bernd
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