
376 Chapter 9 • Optimizing Network Performance with Queuing and Compression
belonging to that flow will be discarded. A network manager/administrator
can select to change this parameter to an integer based on a power of 2
from a range of 16 to 4096. Changing this parameter should be considered
only after completion of a traffic analysis. If this parameter is changed, the
router should be carefully monitored for memory issues. In most networks,
this variable should remain unchanged.
Dynamic queues are used to support best-effort conversations. The
default number of dynamic queues allocated is directly proportional to the
configured interface bandwidth, as ...