* Steve Johnson <maillist@sjohnson.info> [2008-05-09 00:25]:
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> Sorry, I hadn't noticed that I had removed that part of information by 
> mistake when I split the debug information in a different file. I had been 
> told about that setting and had seen the thread, which stated around 256MB 
> per gigabit interface. I had tested from 1000 up to 2500, and although it 
> did reduce the congestion a lot, I was still seeing over 1 per second, 
> which I can't consider that safe for production. I haven't tested higher 
> than 2500 though.

you can try a bit more. modern nics tend to shovel a lot of packets per 
interrupt, and you have 6 of them. don't blindly increase, be careful, 
but don't stop to early either.

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