As a network administrator, you see a very high number of receive discards in the interface statistics of an ISL within your VCS fabric. After further investigation, the discards are found to be…

As a network administrator, you see a very high number of receive discards in the interface statistics of an ISL within your VCS fabric. After further investigation, the discards are found to be incrementing due to tail drops. (Truncated example of the interface stats) Receive Statistics:

1632132 packets, 220809631 bytes Unicasts: 1632131, Multicasts: 0, Broadcasts: 1 64-byte pkts: 985885, Over 64-byte pkts: 415575, Over 127-byte pkts:

88870 Over 255-byte pkts: 86119, Over 511-byte pkts: 17667, Over 1023-byte pkts: 38016 Over 1518-byte pkts(Jumbo): 0 Runts: 0, Jabbers: 0, CRC: 0, Overruns: 0 Errors: 0, Discards: 912313 Referring to the exhibit, what would be the cause of the discards?