Thanks, Wojtek, for your suggestion.
I did put that config in place, but am still seeing packet drops therefater...
Egress queues: 8 supported, 4 in use
Queue: 0, Forwarding classes: best-effort
Queued:
Transmitted:
Packets : 12141436
Bytes : 11219662343
Tail-dropped packets : 30884
RL-dropped packets : 0
RL-dropped bytes : 0(perhaps not as many as before, but still...)