We use it on core-facing links for classes where it makes sense ( ie, not 
real-time classes ) . As far as customer services are concerned, we've only had 
to manually adjust the queue depth only a couple of times, for some special 
cases with special requirements. Since it's so rare, I haven't included it as a 
default in any policies so far. However, no two networks are ever exactly the 
same, so your mileage may vary.

As far as the ASR920's are concerned, I *think* they make the same default 
buffer space allocations as the ME3600s, while their total buffer space is even 
less.


My thoughts and words are my own.

Kind Regards,

Spyros
-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
CiscoNSP List
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:30 AM
To: James Bensley <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Tail drops on ME3600 with shaping policy

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.


________________________________________
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.
_______________________________________________
cisco-nsp mailing list  [email protected] 
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/


This e-mail and any attachment(s) contained within are confidential and are 
intended only for the use of the individual to whom they are addressed. The 
information contained in this communication may be privileged, or exempt from 
disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you 
are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this 
communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication 
in error, please notify the sender and delete the communication without 
retaining any copies. Connecticore SA is not responsible for, nor endorses, any 
opinion, recommendation, conclusion, solicitation, offer or agreement or any 
information contained in this communication.
_______________________________________________
cisco-nsp mailing list  [email protected]
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/

Reply via email to