On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Depends on the byte size of the packet. If most of your throughput is
> standard 1500 byte packets, you should have little to no problem.
>
> If someone starts blasting out 64 byte packets at wire speed though,
> your link will be toast long before traffic ever reaches 100Mbps.
This is exactly what Im worried about but Im not sure if I should be or not.
Because of some of the applications we host, a ton of small packets are
being generated. Heres a breakdown by packetsize.
<= 64 bytes 48.1%
64 to 128 bytes 21.1%
129 to 256 bytes 1.6%
257 to 512 bytes 7.8%
513 to 1024 bytes 5.6%
1025 to 1518 bytes 15.8%
and here is what are pps and bandwidth look like.
queue root_em0 bandwidth 100Mb priority 0 cbq( wrr root ) {ext_root_queue}
[ pkts: 767614230 bytes: 467721711758 dropped pkts: 0 bytes:
0 ]
[ qlength: 0/ 50 borrows: 0 suspends: 0 ]
[ measured: 6448.5 packets/s, 31.21Mb/s ]
Were nearing the 8300pps mark so I was worried? But should I be? Becuase the
majority of my packets are smaller then 64B, shouldn't I be able to pass a
lot more packets then 8300pps? If all my packets were 64K or smaller,
shouldn't that allow me to be able to handle closer to 200k packets/sec
before hitting my bandwidth limit?
by the way. I know where google is. I've been there and have even read some
of the links that are posted in this very thread. However I am confused and
there even seems to be some confusion/discrepancies within this thread... so
I thought I would bounce the question off of people who might have a better
grip on this than I, and already been through similar situations for
feedback, something google cant offer(yet). I am not going to apologize for
my ignorance but thank the people who are actually trying to help me
understand this, without being a smartass about it.
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB
> > internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so?
> Is
> > this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit
> this
> > limit? I'm a little worried about this because we are fast approaching
> this
> > mark and am afraid were gonna hit it before we max out are available
> > bandwidth? Anyone ever run into this situation or am I just paranoid?
