On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Milam, Chad wrote:
> I lowered the timeout to make gc more agressive. Though, it can still
> be adjusted via a /proc entry. Default was 300. Increasing the other
> parameters that you specified (which I have done) only delays the
> inevitable "dst cache overflow". The problem is that gc (rather
> rt_free) is not decrementing .entries. So it _thinks_ the table
> has overflown.
>
Overflow will only happen if /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_thresh
is exceeded. A default of 512 aint that big. What is the average number
of entries you are seeing?
What kind of data do you get from running rtstat?
Increment the size of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_thresh to a higher
number matching your avg entries;
Garbage collection aint that cheap: so safer to just make the size
larger instead of invoking it more frequently -- RAM is cheap. Note also
that garbage collection will run every
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_min_interval time expiry regardless of how
you big your max threshold is.
cheers,
jamal
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