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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:04:13 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        "Bill Marquette" <bill.marquette@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pfsync errors
Message-ID:  <200709062304.19833.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <55e8a96c0709051745v45a40cf3qb8d9ff9725ad8a55@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e667a90b0709051331x35cafdfw50ee0be40969aa30@mail.gmail.com> <200709052316.41257.max@love2party.net> <55e8a96c0709051745v45a40cf3qb8d9ff9725ad8a55@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday 06 September 2007, Bill Marquette wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote:
> > Another way to go is setting the queuelength for the internal
> > processing queue to something insanely high (1000+).  This will most
> > likely work around the problem at the cost of burning (mbuf) memory.
>
> Assuming mbuf memory is essentially free that's certainly not a
> problem for me.  Is this the max ifqlen patch you had me try last
> week?  If so, what's a reasonably (relative to insanely high :))
> number to set that multiplier to?  2 times queue length "helped".  I
> don't want to set it so high that the box panics or something silly :)
>  Or for that matter, stops forwarding traffic while processing.  We'll
> give these patches a try in our lab shortly.  We just started getting
> the Smartbits online to try and duplicate the errors (straight up udp
> testing can't replicate it).

Try 1000 (or 20 * maxifqlen iirc).

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