From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 23:12:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Limit hash table size
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

>>>>> "Andrew" = Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

Andrew> "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>>  Andrew,
>> 
>> Will you merge the changes in the network area first while I'm
>> working on the solution suggested here for inode and dentry? The
>> 2GB tcp hash is the biggest problem for us right now.

Andrew> Is there some reason why TCP could not also end up creating
Andrew> 100's of millions of objects?

Andrew,

I think the likelihood that TCP will generate that is quite small,
it would require a fairly significant number of network interfaces and
I doubt people with 1TB RAM boxes will throw in 256 10GigE interfaces
and run them all flat out.

Cheers,
Jes