Re: Strange CPU load when flushing route cache (kernel 2.6.31.6)

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:03 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > grep LowTotal /proc/meminfo
> > LowTotal:         747080 kB
> > 
> > What does that mean?  Is it bad? What should I run on a 32-bit
> > system/kernel?
> 
> If you have more than 1GB of physical ram, and use your machine as a router, you might
> compile a 2GB/2GB User/Kernel kernel, to get twice available RAM for kernel
> and more IP route entries (if needed)

Can I still use this option if the machine "only" have 2G of physical
RAM?  Most of my production machines have 2G RAM.

Just to verify: This is not an issue on 64-bit kernels right?

> make menuconfig
> --> Processor type and features
>   --> Memory split
>     --> 2G/2G

For completeness sake, Memory split depends on "if EMBEDDED"

So I also needed to enable:

 make menuconfig
  --> General setup
     --> Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) 


> > Can you recommend any other /proc/sys/ tuning options?
> 
> Really hard to say without exact context of use :)

The machines does Internet traffic routing, but with a VERY large
iptables rulesets, e.g. on one production machine I have 18409 chains
and 62916 iptables rules. (I did most of the scalability patches to
iptables userspace to make this work...). And the machines also uses a
very large HTB tree.  Basically I do, per customer, Access Control,
Bandwidth limiting and Personal firewall.

Also note that I'm reserving extra vmalloc memory as iptables uses
vmalloc'ed memory...

> > Does my kernel boot option rhash_entries=262143 make sense anymore?
> > Or do we adjust the hash bucket size dynamically these days?
> > 
> 
> Its not dynamic yet.

Okay I'll keep boot parameter then... or is it possible to resize the
hash runtime?


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