Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 22:46, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:43:27PM -0400, jamal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 17:36, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > > You still haven't told me what you're going to use 3) for yet...
> > 
> > Sorry, keep forgetting to retrieve it from other remote non-networked
> > test machine. The idea is:
> > Create something that generates lots of messages. Make socket buffer
> > small (4096 is good nuf)
> 
> No that's not what I meant.  What I mean is what is the real-world
> scenario where you're going to be doing 3).

The real world scenario is just that: Massive events generated from the
kernel for example

> Only when we know where the messages are coming from and what they
> are can we decide on a meaningful method of limiting their rate.

Ok, heres a sample testcase i created just now following those same
instructions i gave you ;->

---
#!/bin/sh

ifconfig dummy0 1.2.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 1.2.1.255 up
ifconfig dummy0:0 1.2.1.1
for ((i = 1 ; i <= $1 ; i++))
do
        ifconfig dummy0:$i 1.2.1.$i
done
---

pass 100 to it to create 100 aliases; you may not need to setsock to
4096, but thats what i did. 

down dummy0:0 and see the overrun.

cheers,
jamal