Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:41:27 +0100 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: VM tuning for Linux routers |
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Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz> : [...] > I have a dual Athlon w/ 512M RAM and three NICs (one gigabit > 3c985B running 802.1Q with 5 VLANs, two on-board 100Mbit 3c982). This box > has almost nothing other to do apart from routing and packet filtering. > Is there anything I can do to tell the VM system to use as much memory > for network packets as possible?
In a sysctl fashion ? No. However you can increase the length of the Rx/Tx rings on the 100Mb/s side and tune the pci latency timers (depends on the hardware fifo size).
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