2010/9/9, Joe Warren-Meeks <joe.warren.me...@gmail.com>: > Well, the machine has 6Gb of RAM and is only pushing 10Mbit/s of > traffic at peak. It does need to maintain a largeish state table, as > it is predominatly web traffic, but I've run much much larger and > busier sites behind much smaller hardware with the same configs > before.
No problem here. > I guess I'll just upgrade them to 4.7 speculatively and hope it > doesn't happen again. In terms of driver improvement over the time, probably a good choice. > recv/send: > net.inet.tcp.recvspace=16384 > net.inet.udp.recvspace=41600 > j...@f1:/home/joe> sysctl -a |grep send > net.inet.tcp.sendspace=16384 > net.inet.udp.sendspace=9216 > > > Too low? What is a good value for them? It depends on what do you need. The defaults suffice for most cases, but on our most loaded router we use tcp both 256k and udp send space 65k (lots of dns). Just test it somewhere. -- Martin Pelikan
