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From: Peteris Krumins <newsgroups@lf.lv>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re[2]: [LARTC] Connection Tracking - How Many???
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:32:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-106459768708009@msgid-missing> (raw)

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

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-26 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-26 17:32 Peteris Krumins [this message]
2003-09-26 18:11 ` Re[2]: [LARTC] Connection Tracking - How Many??? Daniel Chemko
2003-09-26 21:10 ` Walter D. Wyndroski
2003-09-29 19:23 ` Damjan

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