pfsync errors

[Max Laier]

On Thursday 06 September 2007, Bill Marquette wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Max Laier <max at love2party.net> wrote:
> > Another way to go is setting the queuelength for the internal
> > processing queue to something insanely high (1000+).  This will most
> > likely work around the problem at the cost of burning (mbuf) memory.
>
> Assuming mbuf memory is essentially free that's certainly not a
> problem for me.  Is this the max ifqlen patch you had me try last
> week?  If so, what's a reasonably (relative to insanely high :))
> number to set that multiplier to?  2 times queue length "helped".  I
> don't want to set it so high that the box panics or something silly :)
>  Or for that matter, stops forwarding traffic while processing.  We'll
> give these patches a try in our lab shortly.  We just started getting
> the Smartbits online to try and duplicate the errors (straight up udp
> testing can't replicate it).

Try 1000 (or 20 * maxifqlen iirc).

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