Les Mikesell wrote: > Did the latest Centos4.x kernel break the ability to tcpdump with any > amount of traffic? Machines that used to be able to keep up now show > a few packets and stop - if you hit ^C they take a minute or so to do > anything, then show something like: > > 54 packets captured > 18188 packets received by filter > 18070 packets dropped by kernel > > Before recent updates I almost never saw packets 'dropped by kernel'. > odd, not seeing that here. 1547 packets captured 1547 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel # uname -a Linux svfis-blade03.XXXXXX.com 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 10:11:19 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux System is a IBM HS20 blade w/ 2 x xeon 2.8ghz, Intel E7520 chipset, 05:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 05:01.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)