Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:56:06 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Scott Laird <> | | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 -> 80% Packet Loss |
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 chuckw@altaserv.net wrote: > > > You can fix this by upping the socket buffer that ping asks for (look > > for setsockopt( ... SO_RCVBUF ...)) and then tuning the kernel to > > allow larger socket buffers. The file to fiddle with is > > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max. > > Currently it is set to 65535. I doubled it several times and each time saw > no change when I sent it a ping flood with packet size 64590 or higher. > What sort of magnitude were you thinking?
Did you change both /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max *and* ping's setsockopt? Do an strace on ping and see what's happening.
Scott
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