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From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Subject: Re: System with really big statetable crashing while doing "cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l"
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:59:35 -0700
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Yes, this is a known bug.  I submitted a patch to fix it a few days ago
but have not heard anything from core developers.  See archives:

https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-April/015054.html

Phil Oester


On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:57:34AM +0200, Jens Hektor wrote:
> So we only can guess for if doing
> 
> 	cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l
> 
> the system reproducably crashes.