From: Piotrek Kaczmarek <kaczorek@k.daleka.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: conntrack error
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:32:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050211163214.GA18236@daleka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050211153322.GA2516@bender.817west.com>
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:33:22PM +0000, Jason Opperisano wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:22:17PM +0100, Piotrek Kaczmarek wrote:
> > # sysctl net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max
> > net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 30000
>
> i assume you set that manually, as i don't think there's an amount
> of physical RAM that would result in 30000 on the dot... speaking of
> which--how much physical RAM does this machine have? you would need 512
> MB RAM for ip_conntrack_max to be automatically calculated to 32768,
> even though the conntrack table would only really use around 12 MB of
> kernel memory. also--is this machine dedicated solely to firewalling,
> or is there something else chewing up your RAM?
Yes, I set it by hand, I have 256mb of ram, currently there are ~17000 connections
and 'free' shows 70mb of free memory. That machine is dedicated to routing/firewalling
--
Piotr Kaczmarek
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-11 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-11 10:55 conntrack error Piotrek Kaczmarek
2005-02-11 13:07 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-02-11 15:22 ` Piotrek Kaczmarek
2005-02-11 15:33 ` Jason Opperisano
2005-02-11 16:32 ` Piotrek Kaczmarek [this message]
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