Re: VM tuning for Linux routers

Francois Romieu (romieu@cogenit.fr)
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:47:53 +0100


Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> :
> In article <20011118145400.A23181@se1.cogenit.fr> you wrote:
> > Think about forwarding between GigaE and FastE. Think about overflow and
> > bad irq latency. I wouldn't cut buffering at l2 as it averages the peaks.
> > Different trade-offs make sense of course.
>
> I think in that case increasing the buffers is important:
>
> net.core.rmem_max=262144
> net.core.wmem_max=262144

Aren't these only useful to userspace apps ?

-- 
Ueimor
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/