What would be the potential drawbacks and/or problems with increasing the txqueuelen ?
Issue
- What would be the potential drawbacks and/or problems with increasing the txqueuelen to be the maximum of 20000 for each interface on an Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter on a Dell R910 with 256GB of RAM and 64+ CPU's.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
- 1GB network link.
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