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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit size of route cache hash table
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:47:02 +1000
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Hi,

> Then boot with rhash_entries = 8000 ?
> or 
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_interval

Yes we are hardwiring it for now.

> Sorry this limit is too small. Many of my customer machines would collapse.

So what would a reasonable upper limit be? Surely we should cap it at some
point?

Anton