Re: [LARTC] Memory Loading

[Patrick Turley <pturley@rocksteady.com>]

Thanks for your response.

Unfortunately, I *am* concerned about memory load, and I need to track 
down this information. The approximate numbers you suggested seem 
reasonable, but I need the precise answers. I don't use SFQ at all.

Roy wrote:
> You should not be concerned about memory load, it does not cost that much
> cpu load will be more noticeable bottleneck for your system in any way.
> 
> as about memeory i suppose it takes about 50-100bytes each rule and up to
> 100 kbytes each queue like sfq.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Patrick Turley" <pturley@rocksteady.com>
> To: <lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 7:09 PM
> Subject: [LARTC] Memory Loading
> 
> 
> 
>>Our system has potentially a few thousand firewall rules and
>>HTB
>>classes. I need to find out the amount of memory these things consume:
>>
>>     - iptables firewall rules
>>     - HTB classes
>>
>>If anyone has any easy links to this information, that would be great.
>>Failing that, a pointer to a good place to look in the source code would
>>be very helpful.
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