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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: jason.faulkner@mailtrust.com
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Determining number of active connections
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:16:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B78175.7010608@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236694715.945517171@192.168.1.202>

jason.faulkner@mailtrust.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to be able to monitor (trend) the number of tracked connections in iptables; however, doing something like "cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l" eats up too much CPU to run with regularity (we track somewhere in the realm of 200,000 connections).
> 
> Is there a way to just pull the total number? It'd be nice to know that we aren't even getting close to the number of connections set in the sysctl. 

$ cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_count

or with the conntrack-tools-0.9.11

# conntrack -C

-- 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 14:18 Determining number of active connections jason.faulkner
2009-03-10 15:22 ` Erik Wasser
2009-03-10 15:30   ` jason.faulkner
2009-03-11  9:16 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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