Re: packets being dropped in IP stack but no error counts incrementing?

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:18:09 -0400

Ben Greear wrote:
>
> I am not sure the UDP drop counters are available. If you do
> find them, I'm interested in them too!

Well, I've found an entry in /proc that has some information. The entry is:

/proc/net/softnet_stat

The first two columns are:

total
dropped

In this case, dropped is the number of messages dropped due to the softnet_data
queue being full. I have actually hit this under high load.

I'm still looking for socket/protocol specific stuff though.

Chris

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