{"id":518,"date":"2019-06-01T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.24x7serversupport.com\/24x7serversupport-blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2019-06-01T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T10:45:11","slug":"how-to-tuneup-tx-and-rx-buffers-on-network-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.24x7serversupport.com\/blog\/how-to-tuneup-tx-and-rx-buffers-on-network-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux : How to tune up receive (TX) and transmit (RX) buffers on network interface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Modern and performance\/server grade network interface have the capability of using transmit and receive buffer description ring into the main memory. They use direct memory access (DMA) to transfer packets from the main memory to carry packets independently from the CPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The usual default buffering values for regular desktop NICs are&nbsp;256 or 512 bytes. High performances NICs can achieve up to 4096 and\/or 8192 bytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view the capability and the current values of your interface, you\u2019ll need \u201cethtool\u201d. Simply do the following command :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> ethtool -g eth0<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This will output something like this :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> Ring parameters for eth0:\nPre-set maximums:\nRX: 4096\nRX Mini: 0\nRX Jumbo: 0\nTX: 4096\nCurrent hardware settings:\nRX: 256\nRX Mini: 0\nRX Jumbo: 0\nTX: 256 <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p> We can see here that both RX and TX values are set to 256 but the interface have the capability of 4096 bytes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To increase the buffers, do the following :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> ethtool -G eth0 rx 4096 tx 4096<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern and performance\/server grade network interface have the capability of using transmit and receive buffer description ring into the main memory. They use direct memory access (DMA) to transfer packets from the main memory to carry packets independently from the CPU. The usual default buffering values for regular desktop NICs are&nbsp;256 or 512 bytes. 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