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From: "Remzi AKYÜZ" <linuxliste@gmail.com>
To: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml@conversis.de>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: conntrack table limits
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:49:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3ED4D6.6000601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3EB7F0.5020702@conversis.de>

/etc/modules
nf_conntrack acct=1 hashsize=1048576

Hashsize calc;

HASHSIZE = CONNTRACK_MAX / 8 = RAMSIZE (in bytes) / 131072 = RAMSIZE (in MegaBytes) * 8
HASHSIZE = CONNTRACK_MAX / 8 = RAMSIZE (in bytes) / 131072 / (x / 32)
x= 32 or 64

CONNTRACK_MAX = HASHSIZE * 8


you can see this
http://antmeetspenguin.blogspot.com/2011/01/high-performance-linux-router.html
page.

On 01/25/2011 01:45 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to find out how high I can set conntrack_max on a 2GB 64 
> bit system. On the net I found different ways of calculating this but 
> they seem to end up with different results. One forumla tells me that 
> I can fit a maximum of 65535 connections into 2GB of RAM but the other 
> says that with 304 bytes per connection (plus a bit of slab allocation 
> overhead) I can easily fit more than a million connections into the 
> table.
> Also even with the current limit 65535 and the table having ca. 30.000 
> entries I've almost 1.8GB ram free/cached which leads me to believe 
> the second way of calculating this is more accurate.
> What is the proper way to calculate this?
>
> Regards,
>   Dennis
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 11:45 conntrack table limits Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2011-01-25 13:49 ` Remzi AKYÜZ [this message]
2011-01-26  2:06   ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn

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