Re: [PATCH, RFC] RCU : OOM avoidance and lower latency

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:17 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I have some servers that once in a while crashes when the ip route
> cache is flushed. After
> raising /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/secret_interval (so that *no* 
> flush is done), I got better uptime for these servers. 

Argh, where is that documented?  I have been banging my head against
this for weeks - how do I keep the kernel from flushing 4096 routes at
once in softirq context causing huge (~8-20ms) latency problems?

I tried all the route related sysctls I could find and nothing worked...

Lee

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References:
- [PATCH 4/6] sysctl: dont overflow the user-supplied buffer with 0
  - From: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 4/6] sysctl: dont overflow the user-supplied buffer with 0
  - From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
- [PATCH, RFC] RCU : OOM avoidance and lower latency
  - From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

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