outstanding-packets

outstanding-packets

Used in: flow-control.

Description

Defines the number of unconfirmed packets that will be sent to a cluster node before packets addressed to that node will be deferred. This helps to prevent the sender from flooding the recipient's network buffers.

Auto Tunning

The value may be specified as either an explicit number via the maximum-packets element, or as a range by using both the maximum-packets and minimum-packets elements. When a range is specified, this setting will be dynamically adjusted based on network statistics.

Elements

The following table describes the elements you can define within the outstanding-packets element.

Element Required/Optional Description
<maximum-packets> Optional The maximum number of unconfirmed packets that will be sent to a cluster node before packets addressed to that node will be deferred. It is recommended that this value not be set below 256. Default is 4096.
<minimum-packets> Optional The lower bound on the range for the number of unconfirmed packets that will be sent to a cluster node before packets addressed to that node will be deferred. It is recommended that this value not be set below 16. Default is 64.