From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <netdev@brouer.com>
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: adjust nf_conntrack_buckets default value
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 14:26:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141204142613.1558e172@brouer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7537ac022aea771d7af0aef2bd3bb30e5fa0a008.1417634768.git.mleitner@redhat.com>
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:30:19 -0200
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com> wrote:
> Manually bumping either nf_conntrack_buckets or nf_conntrack_max has
> become a common task as our Linux servers tend to serve more and more
> clients/applications, so let's adjust nf_conntrack_buckets this to a
> more updated value.
>
> Now for systems with more than 4GB of memory, nf_conntrack_buckets
> becomes 65536 instead of 16384, resulting in nf_conntrack_max=256k
> entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
> ---
It have been needed for a long time that we bumped this, e.g. TCP hash
is bigger than our current ceil.
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 19:30 [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: adjust nf_conntrack_buckets default value Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2014-12-04 13:26 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2014-12-23 13:16 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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