| To: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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| Subject: | Re: Memory usage for ip_conntrack |
| From: | Carlos Carvalho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:10:40 -0300 |
| In-reply-to: | <1058563690.26030.23.camel@tux.rsn.bth.se> |
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Martin Josefsson (gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 18 July 2003 23:28: >> If I echo 102400 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max, what is my worst >> case memory usage? > >Don't do this. This will increase the maximum number of connections it >will track, but not the number of buckets. Which means that it will be >slower due to longer collision-chains. Instead increase the number of >buckets. modprobe ip_conntrack hashsize=131072 (or any number here. How can we increase the number of buckets with a monolithic kernel? |
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