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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iproute uses too small of a receive buffer
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:38:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE8ABD6.2010203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE89927.9090405@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear a écrit :

> Second:  Why bail on ENOBUFS at all?  I don't see how it helps the user
> since they will probably just have to start it again, and will miss more
> messages than keeping going would have.
> 
> And, even 1MB may not be enough for some scenarios.  So, probably best to
> let users over-ride the initial setting on cmd-line.  If not, then use
> a large value to start with.
> 

In this case, just dont call setsockopt() at all in "ip" and let system use the
standard/default  value (/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default) that an admin can change
if he wants to handle one million devices :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 23:16 iproute uses too small of a receive buffer Ben Greear
2009-10-27 23:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-27 23:30   ` Ben Greear
2009-10-28  7:01     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-28  7:09       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-28  7:37       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-28  7:52   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-28  7:55     ` David Miller
2009-10-28 19:05     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-28 19:19       ` Ben Greear
2009-10-28 19:50         ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-28 20:04           ` Ben Greear
2009-10-28 20:07             ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-28 20:21               ` Ben Greear
2009-11-10 17:15           ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-28 20:38         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-10-29  8:17       ` David Miller

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