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Dell EMC Networking OS Configuration Guide for the S5048F–ON System 9.14.2.8

Back-Off Mechanism

If the sampling rate for an interface is set to a very low value, the CPU can get overloaded with flow samples under high-traffic conditions.

In such a scenario, a binary back-off mechanism gets triggered, which doubles the sampling-rate (halves the number of samples per second) for all interfaces. The backoff mechanism continues to double the sampling-rate until the CPU condition is cleared. This is as per sFlow version 5 draft. After the back-off changes the sample-rate, you must manually change the sampling rate to the desired value.

As a result of back-off, the actual sampling-rate of an interface may differ from its configured sampling rate. You can view the actual sampling-rate of the interface and the configured sample-rate by using the show sflow command.


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