Throttle on Switch Vlan

[mark.campbell]

We are experiencing intermittant slowness in the layer 2 poertion of out network that consists of 2950's 3524 and 3550 switches. In looking at the interfaces we see throttles(hundreds of thousands over the last month) on vlan 1(which is the only vlan on this segment) I didnt notice if throttles were being seen when the network was running fine.We see very few dropped packets.

The information I have been able to find on CCO refers to throttles on ethernet ports on routers, that being the port temporarily stops accepting traffic(throttled)

Anyone have any idea what throttles mean on vlan 1 or whether this is a concern?

[gmarogi]

I guess throttles mean that the interface is receiving packets at a higher speed than the switch can handle, and hence the interface buffers the frames and sends it to the processor at a lower speed than the arriving rate.