FreeBSD 8.2 and MPD5 stability issues - update

[Eugene Grosbein]

>> After looking in the mpd log file I found out that this message appear
>> when calls are dropped:
>> Jul  3 21:21:21 lns mpd: Daemon overloaded, ignoring request.
>> Jul  3 21:21:22 lns mpd: Daemon overloaded, ignoring request.
>> Jul  3 21:21:23 lns mpd: Daemon overloaded, ignoring request.
>> Jul  3 21:21:23 lns mpd: Daemon overloaded, ignoring request.
>> Jul  3 21:21:24 lns mpd: Daemon overloaded, ignoring request.
>> Jul  3 21:21:24 lns mpd: Daemon overloaded, ignoring request.
>>
>> Does anybody knows where this limit is set in mpd5 ?
>>
> 
> There is internal queue of messages in the mpd-5.5 with length 8129.
> Messages are generated based on various events and enqueued there, then processed.
> 
> Mpd uses GRED algorithm to prevent overload: it accepts all new L2TP connections
> when queue has 10 or less slots occupied (unprocessed events).
> 
> It drops all connections then it has over 60 slots occupied.

s/all/new incoming/

> In between, it drops new message with probability equal to (q-10)*2 percents

s/message/L2TP connection/

> where q is number of occupied queue slots. These constants are hardcoded in its src/ppp.h
> 
> Each time it decided to ignore incoming L2TP requests it notes that in the log,
> as you have already seen.

Eugene Grosbein