QUEUES

In order to be sure that traffic shaping is working as intended, it may be monitored by browsing to Status Queues. this screen will show each queue listed by name, its current usage, and some other related statistics.

The graphical bar shows you how “full” a queueis. The rate of data in the queue is shown in both packets per second (pps) and bits per second (Kbps). Borrows happen when a neighboring queue is not full and capacity is borrowed from there when needed. Drops happen when trafficin a queue is dropped in favor of higher priority traffic. It is normal to see drops, and this does not mean that a full connection is dropped, just a packet. Usually, one side of theconnection will see that a packet was missed and then resend, often slowing down in the process to avoid future drops. The suspends counterindicates when a delay action happens. The suspends counter is only used with the CBQ scheduler, and should be zero when other schedulersare in use.