Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:18:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:18:29 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:15777 "EHLO zcars04e.ca.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:18:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3CFE47D1.A4A3D0B4@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:18:09 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Greear Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: packets being dropped in IP stack but no error counts incrementing? In-Reply-To: <3CFD01F8.B69152E4@nortelnetworks.com> <3CFD9B9C.1050906@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Greear wrote: > > I am not sure the UDP drop counters are available. If you do > find them, I'm interested in them too! Well, I've found an entry in /proc that has some information. The entry is: /proc/net/softnet_stat The first two columns are: total dropped In this case, dropped is the number of messages dropped due to the softnet_data queue being full. I have actually hit this under high load. I'm still looking for socket/protocol specific stuff though. Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - 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/