From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10701231014j6bf33568nc2ca0fb5179f6ee4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:14:50 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] snoopy oddity In-Reply-To: <15b23f02d7799ffd243fcc875f0df93c@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <15b23f02d7799ffd243fcc875f0df93c@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 083d3406-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 1/22/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > doesn't the size of the snoopy queue need to be somewhat > proportional to the speed of the connection? a gigabit connection, for e= axmple, could overrun > QMAX in 520=B5s. yes, but, in the end, if you can't keep up, you can't keep up. You can redirect into a file, but, if the file system is slow (which is it on Plan 9), then you sooner or later can't keep up. Tuning the queue will only let you hold off the day of reckoning, in the hopes that your traffic is bursty. If you could grab a raw disk partition, and have a way to just dump the raw packets on it, that might be your best shot. ron