renice and network forwarding

2017-12-03 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello all, just wondering if anyone else has tried using renice to de-prioritise other processes in an effort to give more cpu time to packet forwarding in the kernel ? While Im certain that there significant risks to system stability and other functionality of the system if one were to carpet bo

Re: renice and network forwarding

2017-12-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
won't help. it does not adjust the scheduler in that way, at all > just wondering if anyone else has tried using renice to > de-prioritise other processes in an effort to give more cpu > time to packet forwarding in the kernel ? > > While Im certain that there significant risks to system stabili

Re: renice and network forwarding

2017-12-04 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 03/12/17(Sun) 21:13, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello all, > > just wondering if anyone else has tried using renice to > de-prioritise other processes in an effort to give more cpu > time to packet forwarding in the kernel ? The thread responsible for processing packets being forwarded is 'softnet'.

Re: renice and network forwarding

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Lads, Sorry for the delay some other project work got in my way @martin Please find my responses to your queries in line On 4 December 2017 at 10:09, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > > The thread responsible for processing packets being forwarded is > 'softnet'. Like almost all others kernel threads