Re: [libvirt] is it possible to set txqueuelen on vnetX devices automatically

2012-04-03 Thread Tim Hughes
For anyone interested I have managed to get this working using a udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vnet.rules KERNEL=="vnet[0-9]", RUN+="/sbin/ifconfig %k txqueuelen 2500" On 2 April 2012 18:03, Tim Hughes wrote: > Thankyou , I should be able to do it with the hooks. I have raised a > feature re

Re: [libvirt] is it possible to set txqueuelen on vnetX devices automatically

2012-04-02 Thread Tim Hughes
Thankyou , I should be able to do it with the hooks. I have raised a feature request at BZ809172 Tim Hughes mailto:thug...@thegoldfish.org On 2 April 2012 17:22, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:15:55PM +0100, Tim Hughes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We have been tuning our

Re: [libvirt] is it possible to set txqueuelen on vnetX devices automatically

2012-04-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:15:55PM +0100, Tim Hughes wrote: > Hello, > > We have been tuning our libvirt hosts and discovered that setting the > txqueuelen on vnetX devices to 2500 we can increase the network throughput > by a factor of almost 10. On an eth device it can be set by hand/rc.local >