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From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
Subject: Re: a question about ip_conntrack_max
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:21:43 +0100
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Hello,

(removed Harald Welte from Cc: - I'm sure he's reading the list, anyway)

> i am hacking ip_conntrack.

What is your goal?

> ip_conntrack_max=8*ip_conntrack_htable_size;
> 
> what's the reason of multiplying ip_conntrack_htable_size by 8?

It gives you 8 times as much conntrack entries as you have
conntrack hash buckets.  Isn't 8 a nice number?  What number
would you prefer, and why?  The kernel has to derive ip_conntrack_max
SOMEHOW, and that's the way it does it now. There is another equally
arbitrary choice of ip_conntrack_htable_size, which is calculated
from the amount of memory in your machine. Again, the kernel has to do
SOMETHING in the absence of configuration information.

best regards
  Patrick