Buffer Bloat, and what to do about it in Debian
After a Slashdot entry, I discovered an interesting series of blog posts
by Jim Gettys. The series starts
http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/first-puzzle-piece/ (unlike
Slashdot which linked to a random place in the middle).
I checked out my txqueuelen in my desktop (its one interface is set 100)
and my server/router (both interfaces are set to 1000)
Both are running Debian Squeeze - with the desktop getting its ip info
via dhcp (using dnsmasq on the server) where as the server/router has
its ip address aquired via dhcp on the wan side from my ISP, and is
static on the home lan side.
I can obviously (at least according to one of the blog entries) change
the txqueuelen manually to some other value, but how do you set such
entries permenantly in Debian - and what is controlling that value - why
are they different between my server and desktop?
I poked around in /etc/networking, but can't find anything that might
affect it their.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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