[c-nsp] Me3600 microburst / drops / queue-limit

Xu Hu jstuxuhu0816 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 11:43:52 EDT 2012


I remember last time I also encounter such issue caused by microburst, we change the input q size to 2000 from default 70.
And also I remember we can check the buffer loss is how many packets through show buffer command.

Thanks and regards,
Xu Hu

On 20 Jun, 2012, at 6:09, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> On 19/06/2012 21:37, sledge121 at gmail.com wrote:
>> I read a reply from Waris saying that microburst can cause drops when
>> traffic arrives from high speed interfaces, he suggested increasing the
>> queue-limit to 492 KB, the box only has a total of 44MB for packet
>> buffer and I would like to monitor how much of this total is in use at
>> any one time, is there an snmp oid that would show me this usage or any
>> other way I can monitor this.
>> 
>> Maybe One for Waris if he still monitors the list or anybody else who
>> has come across this situation before.
> 
> Eh, difficult to monitor.  Remember that this is a dynamic buffer: in the
> time that it takes to send and receive an snmp query from a busy host, a
> 492K buffer might have been filled and drained several times.
> 
> Nick
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