> [ 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,
that is not a high enough rate of packets to worry about unless it's running on very weak hardware or there's some other problem. if this becomes a problem you'll see things like high cpu% in interrupt in top(1) output. > shouldn't that allow me to be able to handle closer to 200k packets/sec > before hitting my bandwidth limit? you'll probably hit bandwidth limits before you run into problems through too-high pps on a 100Mb link with em(4) nics. > there even seems to be some confusion/discrepancies within this thread... welcome to misc@
