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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:31:31 -0600
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- From: Joe Doupnik <JRD@USU.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: ALARMING Server Statistics... !!!
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- >Hi,
- >I have the foll. query :
- >We have 2 NW 3.11 servers with the foll. stats...
- > Server A Server B
- >
- >Uptime 31 days 19 days
- >NIC NE2000 NE2000
- >Pkts. sent 11,384,917 11,307,471
- >Pkts. rcvd. 11,210,981 11,249,449
- >ChecksumErrors 73 168
- >TotalCollisionCount 10,179 12,451
- >UnsupportedFramePkt.Cnt.502,002 302,498
- >EnqueuedSendsCount 159,077 (!!!) 107,689 (!!!)
- >
- >
- >All other stats. are either 0 or not supported.
- >
- >Now, what are my worries here ? Is the EnqueuedSendsCount number
- >alarming (Please consider the UPTIME of each server) ? We are running
- >IPX/SPX as well as TCP/IP (most of it is TCP though)
- >but should this matter ? (I guess it does)
- >Do I need to re-boot the server (i.e bring it down) so that the buffers
- >are cleared or is ther no need for alarm at all ???
- >Please advice.
- >Thanx in advance.
- >Ajay.
- ----------------
- No, leave it alone. The enqueued send counts means what it says:
- queued for sending. And that means the server core was generating outgoing
- packets faster than they could be sent on the wire. Your collision count
- is a bit high so check for excessive traffic on the wire, and maybe a
- flakey connector in the system. For what it's worth, running NFS on the
- server can make the enqueued count climb fast, because the core part is
- generating a flurry of packets faster than the lower levels can export them.
- Over a 90 day period I've seen a server have 10^6 enqueued counts, running
- NFS.
- Joe D.
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