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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@cogenit.fr>
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Subject: Re: VM tuning for Linux routers
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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 ?

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Ueimor
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