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Subject: Re: [LARTC] RE: Sluggish throughput with htb
From: gypsy <gypsy () iswest ! com>
Date: 2007-11-09 2:49:08
Message-ID: 4733CAA4.15DA81F5 () iswest ! com
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Andrew Kraslavsky wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Follow up to the problem I reported earlier:
>
> > I have been using the following as a means of rate limiting
> > access to the Internet via eth0 (which connects to my cable
> > modem) and it was working great with my 2.4.20 kernel:
> >
> > tc qdisc del dev eth0 root
> > tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 1
> > tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 486kbit ceil 486kbit
> > tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:1 handle 10: sfq perturb 10
> >
> > However, after recently updating to kernel version 2.6.15,
> > throughput on eth0 has become sluggish and it is only by
> > disabling the above that performance is restored.
> >
> > Also, I see a whole slew of the following messages in my log:
> >
> > qdisc_restart: Empty queue has non zero length 1
>
> I see negative "tokens" and "ctokens" values listed when I do a "show" on the class \
> of eth0:
> $ tc -s -d class show dev eth0
>
> class htb 1:1 root leaf 10: prio 0 quantum 6075 rate 486000bit ceil 486000bit burst \
> 2206b/8 mpu 0b overhead 0b cburst 2206b/8 mpu 0b overhead 0b level 0
Why is the quantum so large? Is this a gigabit NIC?
> Sent 614100 bytes 578 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
> rate 31312bit 3pps backlog 106p
This backlog and the 472 borrowed below are what are causing your
negatives.
> lended: 472 borrowed: 0 giants: 0
> tokens: -33271 ctokens: -33271
>
> Are the "tokens" and "ctokens" values ever supposed to be negative?
Yes.
> If so, what does the negative value mean (e.g. borrowed or lent tokens?).
I don't know. Read the HTB docs.
If not, is this indicative of a problem that is at all familiar to
anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Andrew Kraslavsky
My guesses are:
1) The clock used by HTB is too slow.
2) This is a gigabit NIC not correctly set up.
--
gypsy
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