Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.slu.se (mail1.slu.se [130.238.96.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j077JCqu031515 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:19:15 -0800 Received: from robur.slu.se (robur.slu.se [130.238.98.12]) by mail1.slu.se (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j07JIuuA025916; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:18:56 +0100 Received: by robur.slu.se (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66A94EC1A0; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:18:56 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Olsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16862.57504.383176.640058@robur.slu.se> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:18:56 +0100 To: jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Robert Olsson , Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: V2.4 policy router operates faster/better than V2.6 In-Reply-To: <200501071017.31751.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> References: <200501031455.26980.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> <200501061618.24465.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> <16861.48463.770166.352726@robur.slu.se> <200501071017.31751.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/650/Sun Jan 2 19:00:02 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on 127.0.0.1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 13602 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Jeremy M. Guthrie writes: > Did my second email w/ the lnstat data not make it? I see most zeroes > > cat /proc/net/softnet_stat > total droppped tsquz Throttl FR_hit FR_succe FR_defer FR_def_o > cpu_coll > > 9ba490f3 00000000 01281572 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > > 002562c2 9939268d 00000000 010e42e9 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > > 00000000 0028fe72 > Why do these drops not show up in the interface drop? These are drops in the network stack not in the devices. --ro