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From: Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four@googlemail.com>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ipset 6.6 released
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:22:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDBA31B.4040406@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105241404390.1846@blackhole.kfki.hu>


> Currently I can suggest you that tune both the hashsize and maxelem 
> parameters: the hashsize tells the system the initial hash size (and thus 
> the used memory resource) while maxelem tells up to what number of 
> elements can be added to the set. You are free to enter quite high maxelem 
> values, it does not waste memory. As you add more and more elements, the 
> hash size is increased from the one specified by 'hashsize'. But you (or 
> the SET targets) can't add more elements than "maxelem".
>
> When you save a set, the current hashsize is saved and not the one 
> specified at set creation time.
>   
Ah, I see! So maxelem does not have an impact on system resources as 
hashsize has, is that right? If that is the case, then I may as well 
leave the default (64k) as I'd never exceed this value. Thanks for your 
input, as always!


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24  8:48 [ANNOUNCE] ipset 6.6 released Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-05-24 11:09 ` Mr Dash Four
2011-05-24 11:44   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-05-24 11:54     ` Mr Dash Four
2011-05-24 12:19       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-05-24 12:22         ` Mr Dash Four [this message]
2011-05-24 12:31           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-05-25  2:33             ` Mr Dash Four
2011-05-25  1:58 ` Mr Dash Four
2011-05-25  7:23   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-05-25  8:32     ` Mr Dash Four
2011-06-08  1:17 ` ipset 6.6 bug: subnet (mis)matching Mr Dash Four
2011-06-08  7:07   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-06-08 10:07     ` Mr Dash Four
2011-06-08 10:46       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-06-08 11:21         ` Mr Dash Four
2011-06-08 11:43           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2011-06-08 12:12             ` Mr Dash Four

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