Unequal Load Balance on Etherchannel (L2/SW3400ME)

Question

Hi, i have a problem with my L2 port-channel between 2 SW ME-3400-24TS-D (12.2(44)SE5), there is a unequal load balance and i don't know how to fixed. Should I change the load balance method?.
All four ports have the same config, except one (int fa0/1 on SW_2) that have this commands:
MAMANIVLN1P1IRA1#SH RUN INT FA0/1 | INC hold
 hold-queue 4096 in
 hold-queue 4096 out
Should i change this hold-queue config?
Here more outputs where you can see the diference, one link has 2mb and the other link has 60mb,, that's a big diference, i would like to know how to solve this:
SW_1#sh int fa0/9 | inc (Desc|rate)
  Description: !!!!!! HACIA SW_2 !!!!!
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  5 minute input rate 2088000 bits/sec, 2065 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 25000 bits/sec, 46 packets/sec
SW_1#sh int fa0/10 | inc (Desc|rate)
  Description: PORTCHANNEL10 HACIA SW_2
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  5 minute input rate 1905000 bits/sec, 1948 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 63348000 bits/sec, 6095 packets/sec
SW_2#sh int fa0/1 | inc (Desc|rate) 
  Description: Hacia SW_1_Fa0/9
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  30 second input rate 27000 bits/sec, 48 packets/sec
  30 second output rate 2385000 bits/sec, 1996 packets/sec
SW_2#sh int fa0/2 | inc (Desc|rate)
  Description: PORTCHANNEL10 HACIA SW_1
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  5 minute input rate 63567000 bits/sec, 6114 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 1935000 bits/sec, 1976 packets/sec
more outputs...
SW_1#sh etherchannel load-balance 
EtherChannel Load-Balancing Configuration:
        src-mac
EtherChannel Load-Balancing Addresses Used Per-Protocol:
Non-IP: Source MAC address
  IPv4: Source MAC address
SW_2#sh etherchannel load-balance 
EtherChannel Load-Balancing Configuration:
        src-mac
EtherChannel Load-Balancing Addresses Used Per-Protocol:
Non-IP: Source MAC address
  IPv4: Source MAC address
SW_1#SH MAC ADDress-table INTerface po10 | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 297
SW_2#SH MAC ADDress-table INTerface po10 | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 66
In advance thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Normally it will fairly well balance the traffic . There is no way to make sure each channel is exactly the same utilization wise . You can look at how it is load balanced and make a change from say mac to ip address if it looks like you aren't getting the balance you want . It would be very rare that you are going to fill one port on the channel without filling the rest almost the same .Exceptions would be if you most of your traffic is headed to one place like a certain server , even then if you used ip addresses in both directions as the load balance I think it would balance out pretty good. If it got to that point where one link was almost filled you would have to think about adding another port to the channel . This is a real good page http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094714.shtml