From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peteris Krumins Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:32:37 +0000 Subject: Re[2]: [LARTC] Connection Tracking - How Many??? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Thursday, September 25, 2003, 10:35:39 PM, you wrote: WDW> Sorry, I must have missed it when reading the netfilter howto. I WDW> found it later when reading through it again: approx 32,000 connections WDW> per 512 megs of ram. Wrong. 1 conntrack entry = 292 Bytes. 512*1024 = 524800 KiloBytes 524800*1024 = 537395200 Bytes 537395200 / 292 = 1840394 connections. Of course this would simply kill the cpu. I am doing 35000 connection trackings at the moment at aprox. less than 80mb of ram on 266Mhz PII.. P.Krumins _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/