Re: HUGE packet-drop

[rixed () happyleptic org]

-[ Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:40:40PM +0100, rixed () happyleptic org ]----
> And I also experienced a huge packet drop whenever the throughput raised
> above 50MB/sec (up to 100MB/sec). By huge, I mean almost 50% of total
> received packets (ie. one third of the packets were lost according to
> pcap stats).

So it appeared that the packet drop was due to too much processing of
the packets. If I aleviate the processing going on for each packet then the
numbers of dropped packets can be made as low as wanted.

So much for the noise.

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