Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:03:41 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P8 |
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > it has an effect on input queue length. Output queue lengths can be > > reduced via 'ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 8'. > > OK. With both of these set to 4, the largest latency I was able to > generate by ping flooding was 253 usecs. > > Is there any particular reason one of these parameters is set via a > sysctl/proc entry, and one by ifconfig?
well, the input packet backlog is global, the output one is local. No good reason otherwise.
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