On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:16:39 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > After a Slashdot entry, I discovered an interesting series of blog posts > by Jim Gettys. The series starts > http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/first-puzzle-piece/ (unlike > Slashdot which linked to a random place in the middle). > > I checked out my txqueuelen in my desktop (its one interface is set 100) > and my server/router (both interfaces are set to 1000) > > Both are running Debian Squeeze - with the desktop getting its ip info > via dhcp (using dnsmasq on the server) where as the server/router has > its ip address aquired via dhcp on the wan side from my ISP, and is > static on the home lan side.
I think that value is auto-set to 100 (10/100 ethernet) or 1000 (gigabit) when the swicth/ethernet cards/cabling allow it. > I can obviously (at least according to one of the blog entries) change > the txqueuelen manually to some other value, but how do you set such > entries permenantly in Debian - and what is controlling that value - why > are they different between my server and desktop? > > I poked around in /etc/networking, but can't find anything that might > affect it their. How to set txqueuelen? http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/188 Question is why should we manually tweak that value at all? Are the defaults bad/incorrectly set or are they very conservative? What is the gain to increasing it? Will it have any drawbacks? What happens with "bonded" interfaces (mode 1 or mode 3)? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
