Re: Interface Flushes

From: P729 (p729@cox.net)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 23:24:29 GMT-3


From the Output Interpreter
(https://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/OutputInterpreter/home.pl):

"INFO: There have been 701876 flushes on this interface. Flushes are similar
to input drops, but are proactively forced by the router before the input
queue is full. Selective Packet Discard (SPD) is the congestion avoidance
mechanism used, where non-control packets are dropped in preference to
control packets (i.e. routing updates). Monitor the number of flushes. If
they continue to increment, consider increasing the size of the input queue
and/or improving the switching mechanism used by this interface (e.g. change
process switching to fast switching). 'Flushes' troubleshooting can be
treated similar to input drops."

Regards,

Mas Kato
https://ecardfile.com/id/mkato
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Huang" <routing@icharles.no-ip.com>
To: "CCIE" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 4:05 PM
Subject: Interface Flushes

Hi All,

I have 701876 flushes on show interface command. Does anyone know what
'flushes' mean? Can someone point out a link or explain in detail on what
does the counter for ? was the packet lost/dropped/forwarded ?

Thanks
Charles

FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up
  Hardware is DEC21140A, address is 0001.c937.1e01 (bia 0001.c937.1e01)
  Internet address is 172.20.49.18/30
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000 Kbit, DLY 1000 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 10/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Half-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:03, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 1d02h
  Input queue: 0/500/0/701876 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops:
0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue :0/40 (size/max)
  30 second input rate 426000 bits/sec, 136 packets/sec
  30 second output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
     30785609 packets input, 2617627636 bytes
     Received 30785576 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 49 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     18559 packets output, 1295812 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 38 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out



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