[c-nsp] iSCSI, port buffers, and small switches

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 09:38:56PM +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote:
> This is an important point IMO. If you don't need any kind of traffic
> differentiation and have ample bandwidth there should be no problems
> with small buffers.

Unless you have many-to-one traffic with micro bursts.  Which was our
problem with the 2960 - the 1-second-average of the ingress ports would
have nicely fit the egress ports (with a big margin), but the traffic 
was bursty enough to cause significant egress drops.

gert

-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert at net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 305 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/attachments/20110726/91f4ca77/attachment.pgp>