Re: [Fwd: Re: possible bug x86 2.4.2 SMP in IP receive stack]

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:56:43PM +0100, Bob Felderman wrote:
> I think the culprit here is the packet receive errors from 
> UDP. These are socket overflows I think. I'm trying to 
> track it down. When I used DaveM's zero-copy patches on
> a linux-2.4.0 kernel, most, if not all, of these
> packet receive errors went away. 

So does it help when you increase the socket receive buffer of the receiver ?

(via /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_{default,max}) 


-Andi
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