What would be the potential drawbacks and/or problems with increasing the txqueuelen ?

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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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