Hi everybody! Greetings for you! I am a new member of this list. Please somebody help me! I am developing an application for counting and processing packets in a linux box with using the ip_queue module. It is working properly, but sometimes I have a problem, that I get often this message: Failed to receive netlink message, No buffer space available Maybee the cause of this, that the box has a lot of short hardly tasks sometimes. I think the solution to prevent the packet loss If I would increase the queue length. I did it with this command: echo 2048 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_queue_maxlen #cat /proc/net/ip_queue Peer PID : 23985 Copy mode : 2 Copy range : 2048 Queue length : 184 Queue max. length : 2048 The enviroment: 2.4.26 kernel and iptables: 1.2.9 with promiscuous patch 1.2.3 With this command: watch -n 0 "cat /proc/net/ip_queue" during my application running the biggest number of "Queue length" is 255. I don't understand it, because the "Queue max. length" is 2048. How can I increase the queue length? What is the really method of the queue increasing? Thanx: Gabor
