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From: Piotrek Kaczmarek <kaczorek@k.daleka.net>
Subject: Re: conntrack error
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:22:17 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:07:36PM +0000, Jason Opperisano wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 05:55, Piotrek Kaczmarek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I encountered the following situation - when there are around 20000 connections
> > "cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack" doesn't display all connections and outputs
> > "cat: No space left on device" error. If I patch kernel with POM and 'nth' module
> > (only patch, don't load the module) the same happens around 17000 connections.
> > It happenes both with 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels.
> >
> > Why is it so? Is this matter of memory limit or something else?
> 
> what does:
> 
>   sysctl net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max
> 
> say?  i don't suppose it would be quite that simple, but might as well
> start there.

# sysctl net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 30000

-- 
Piotr Kaczmarek