Thus spake "Felix Lee" <felixlee_hk@hotmail.com>
> I have a Catalyst 6509 running with Fw 5.4(2) & NmpSW 5.5(11). And the
> MSFC is running on 12.1(3a)E4.
FWIW, you really don't want to be running 12.1(3a)E4. We're having very
good luck with 12.1(8b)E9 so far. 5.5(11) is okay but I'd go to 5.5(13a)
when convenient.
> One strange point that cannot be explained is the priority
> queue applied on a VLAN which is connection to a WAN
> 100Mbps fastethernet. The priority queue is to put the
> FTP traffic low priority. After applying the priority queue,
> the time for a daily FTP job has been extended from 3
> hours to 5 hours while the traffic loading of the link is only
> around 10%. The duration come back to 3 hours after
> removing the priority queue.
>
> Can someone help to give advice?
When you put traffic in a low priority queue, that's going to increase
latency to some degree. TCP throughput is determined by bandwidth*delay.
Therefore, putting FTP in the low queue is going to slow it down.
I wouldn't expect such a drastic difference with only 10% loading, but if
you look closer, you're probably seeing periodic spikes which only average
out to 10%. These spikes will hammer your FTP's congestion avoidance
algorithm if it's the only significant activity in the low queue.
S
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