Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:18:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.slu.se (mx1.slu.se [130.238.96.70]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0JMIKAu020227 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:18:21 -0800 Received: from robur.slu.se (robur.slu.se [130.238.98.12]) by mx1.slu.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0JMIFeD018325; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:18:16 +0100 Received: by robur.slu.se (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A3B1FEC1A1; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:18:15 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Olsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16878.56487.600435.442912@robur.slu.se> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:18:15 +0100 To: jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Robert Olsson Subject: Re: V2.4 policy router operates faster/better than V2.6 In-Reply-To: <200501190903.45671.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> References: <200501141326.29575.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> <16874.24305.461492.48668@robur.slu.se> <200501190903.45671.jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 130.238.96.70 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: 508 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: > > gc_elasticity, gc_interval, gc_thresh etc I would avoid gc_min_interval. > I have done a little tweaking. I now hold at around 520K routes in the hash. > I still drop packets every secret_interval but I've upped that counter so I > don't whack all of my hash entries all that often. Sounds you done progress. This with relative conservative setting if RX-buffers? secret_interval needs special care as it flushes the cache totally. What did you tweak? Your output from rtstat will be very interesting. --ro