Hi! On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > it looks like reading from a socket opened with PF_PACKET, SOCK_DGRAM > loses data if the system is non-trivially loaded. > What exactly is this non-trivial load? If it sometimes consumes the whole of its timeslice then your net-acct is not scheduled for at least 10ms which makes up about 50 packets. I don't know how long the queue is, though... (might be 64kB, 50*mtu=75kB) Ciao, Roland +---------------------------+-------------------------+ | TU Muenchen | | | Physik-Department E18 | Raum 3558 | | James-Franck-Str. | Telefon 089/289-12592 | | 85747 Garching | | +---------------------------+-------------------------+ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html