Re: netlink drops messages.

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:47:04PM +0100, jamal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > I suspect if someone is really seriously expecting to handle hundreds of
> > interface up/down per seconds they would opt for shared memory. For routes
> > you do not even need kernel support, because you can do that privately with
> > the routing daemon.
> 
> Sounds nice. I think hundreds of interface up/down per seconds is extreme
> end unless you have "dynamic" type of devices like L2TP which come
> and go (lets not go into the interface discussion again ;-<).
> Having said that, the router has to be robust to hundreds of interface
> up/down per seconds.

It is when you go to "dump netlink state every 60s" mode on overload.


-Andi
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