Thanks, Florian. Applied (at last!). Cheers, Michael On 10/19/2014 10:21 PM, Florian Westphal wrote: > --- > Changes since v1: > made a minor edit to better explain the difference between > 'dropped' and 'user dropped' counters. > > man5/proc.5 | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 > index 7ca2226..da4b5b6 100644 > --- a/man5/proc.5 > +++ b/man5/proc.5 > @@ -2770,6 +2770,63 @@ not yet supported in the kernel). > \&"St" is the internal state of the > socket and Path is the bound path (if any) of the socket. > .TP > +.I /proc/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue > +This file contains information about netfilter userspace queueing, if used. > +Each line represents a queue. Queues that have not been subscribed to > +by userspace are not shown. > +.nf > + > + 1 4207 0 2 65535 0 0 0 1 > + (1) (2) (3)(4) (5) (6) (7) (8) > +.fi > +.IP > +The fields in each line are: > +.RS 7 > +.TP 5 > +(1) > +The ID of the queue. This matches what is specified in the > +.B \-\-queue\-num > +or > +.B \-\-queue\-balance > +options to the > +.BR iptables (8) > +NFQUEUE target. See > +.BR iptables-extensions (8) > +for more information. > +.TP > +(2) > +The netlink port id subscribed to the queue. > +.TP > +(3) > +The number of packets currently queued and waiting to be processed by > +the application. > +.TP > +(4) > +The copy mode of the queue. It is either 1 (metadata only) or 2 > +(also copy payload data to userspace). > +.TP > +(5) > +Copy range, i.e. how many bytes of packet payload should be copied to > +userspace at most. > +.TP > +(6) > +queue dropped. Number of packets that had to be dropped by the kernel because > +too many packets are already waiting for userspace to send back the mandatory > +accept/drop verdicts. > +.TP > +(7) > +queue user dropped. Number of packets that were dropped within the netlink > +subsystem. Such drops usually happen when the corresponding socket buffer is > +full, i.e. userspace is not able to read messages fast enough. > +.TP > +(8) > +sequence number. Every queued packet is associated with a (32-bit) > +monotonically-increasing sequence number. > +This shows the ID of the most recent packet queued. > +.RE > +.IP > +The last number only exists for compatibility reasons and is always 1. > +.TP > .I /proc/partitions > Contains the major and minor numbers of each partition as well as the number > of 1024-byte blocks and the partition name. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html