Thanks James - If the queue-limit percent 100 alleviates the issue for the one 
service instance Ive applied it to, I might look at implementing your solution, 
if you have had success with it eliminating tail drops.


Side note - Are "most" using this type of solution on the ME3600's...we've only 
got approx 100 services deployed on 8 ME's, and havent run into any issues 
until now with tail drops....but this service is provided by a carrier that 
requires insane shaping to be applied at both ends(PE/CE), or there service 
simply works horribly.


We have recently purchased a whole bunch of ASR920's(Instead of ME3600's) - Are 
they also afflicted with this issue?


Thanks again to all who replied....much appreciated.


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From: James Bensley <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 10:49 PM
To: [email protected]; CiscoNSP List
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Tail drops on ME3600 with shaping policy

On 16 September 2015 at 10:10, CiscoNSP List <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks very much James - Very helpful!
>
>
> So there's no singular way I can test this (queue-limit percent 100) on a 
> single service instance under an Interface? i.e. Id have to re-do the entire 
> qos policy for the Interface and associated service instances?
>
>
> In our current situation, we have ~30 service instances, all varying 
> subscribed speeds under one Interface...only a few of them are showing tail 
> drops, so I was hoping to test the queue limit "fix" on one or two of 
> them...but from what Im reading in your reply, this doesnt look to be 
> possible?


As per Adam's suggestion you can apply the policy lower down in the
tree of physical port > VLAN/service instance > individual traffic
class. Also you could match based on service instance in a parent
policy applied at the interface level. There's often more than way to
to achieve the same result.

Spyros mentioned about over-buffering. I don't see any problem with
this, with "queue-limit percent 100" the IOS resource manager will
allocate more buffers to the port as requried (as throughput
increases) and de-allocated them when they aren't need, otherwise you
couldn't have more than one traffic class on the entire switch with
"queue-limit percent 100" configured. The idea/approach I use is that
the command can be applied everywhere and just let the ASIC handle it.
This has removed tail-drops for us without any further issues or
repercussions.

Cheers,
James.
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