Packet Drop issue
Packet drops can happen at two layers. one at the NIC level or at the Network stack level. 1. Nic level:- Check 'ifconfig' output. RX packets:297126179 errors:0 dropped:3981 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:233589229 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 That means packets drops at the NIC level. These are most likely caused by exhaustion of the RX ring buffer. Increase the size of the Ethernet device ring buffer. First inspect the output of "ethtool -g eth0". If the "Pre-set maximums" are more than the what's listed in the current hardware settings it's recommend to increase this number. As an example: # ethtool -g eth0 Ring parameters for eth0: Pre-set maximums: RX: 1020 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 16320 TX: 255 Current hardware settings: RX: 255 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 0 TX: 255 To increase the RX ring buffer to 4080 you would run "ethtool -G eth0 rx 1020". 2. Network stack level:- Need to tweak sysctl kernel...