[Xorp-users] kernel msg "mroute: pending queue full, dropping entries."

[Ben Greear]

On 12/15/2009 03:23 AM, Alexis de Lattre wrote:
> Alexis de Lattre a écrit :
>> I am the only one to get these "mroute: pending queue full, dropping
>> entries" kernel messages ?
>> I have never seen these messages on our router-firewalls before
>> installing Xorp, so it's clearly linked.
>
> I upgraded the kernel to version 2.6.30 (package version
> 2.6.30-8~bpo50+1 from backports.org), and the kernel error message is
> still present...

This seems to be because xorp isn't reading it's socket quick enough.

One might could increase the read-size for the buffer to allow more pkts
to be queued, but that would require code changes most likely.

See net/ipv4/ipmr.c in the Linux code.

Thanks,
Ben

>


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