[Click] drops in FromDevice element

[Beyers Cronje]

Hi Guido,

FromDevice is not the polling element. Use PollDevice. Also 8000pps seems
low even for FromDevice, what type of config are you using?

Beyers

On 11/24/06, Guido Alejandro Gavilanes <ggavilanes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> First I would like to thank you for your support last week. I have
> been trying some ethernet tests by forwarding frames from one
> interface to another as before, and I find that with more or less 8000
> packets per second on the ethernet input interface, the entire system
> started to loose ethernet frames; So I started to monitor input
> ethernet interface and found the drop counter (from
> /proc/click/FromDevice\@7/drops) increasing and increasing, when I
> slow down the load, slightly, the counter doesnt increase.
> Reading FromDevice documentation I see FromDevice element passes
> packets taken from a queue to its output and I was wondering if these
> drops are lost due to an overflow in such internal queue.
>
> I tried using BURST parameter in order to have this queue most empty
> as possible on each polling cycle, but I does not seem to have an
> effect on observations.
>
> What can I do to decrease these drops? any suggestions?
> Thank you very much!
> Guido
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