On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Matthew Dempsky  wrote:

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> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Daniel Melameth  wrote:

>> It appears you're pushing a lot of traffic through the box--and on a

>> hunch is net.inet.ip.ifq.drops not zero?

>

> You're correct:

>

>    # sysctl net.inet.ip.ifq.drops

>    net.inet.ip.ifq.drops=18810453

>

> And every few seconds it bursts up a bit more.

>

>> If so, raising

>> net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen might help with this--amongst other things.

>

> What's a reasonable value for this?  I bumped it from 256 to 2560 a

> few minutes ago and ifq.drops hasn't gone up any further.

From previous correspondence on this on this list, I understand 256 *

the number of interfaces is recommended, but, ideally, you just want

it high enough to where you infrequently see drops.
Hope this helps resolve your issue, but, even if it doesn't, we're

correcting an outstanding issue you've had.
Cheers.