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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:07:46PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> If you have 2G of huge memory and one 16M routes then the rules start to
> kill an application.
> Since huge memory is unpageable (pinned) then it is limited.

Won't paging out routes result in very poor network performance?