Re: Linux 2.4 networking/routing slowdown

[Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rusty Russell writes:
 > 
 > Ah... What are you using as a traffic generator?
 > 
 > Creating a new connection is expensive (but could probably be
 > optimized): given that usually < 1 in 10 packets is a new connection,
 > this seemed a reasonable optimization strategy.  If you are sending
 > random packets, you are trying to create 1 million connections (well,
 > some will timeout).
 > 
 > You *can* help a bit by enlarging the hash tables: try:
 >      insmod ipchains hashsize=100000
 > 
 > You could also try sending the *same* packet 1,000,000 times, and see
 > if we do better there...
 > 
 > Very interesting,

 Hello!

 Yes a packet generator is used and it is sending the "same" packet a 
 million times. So there shouldn't be too much connections unless 
 something weird is going on. If you got any idea it easy to test again.

 Cheers.

                                                --ro