On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:48:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Hannes Eder <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:13:57 +0200 > > > No more guessing, how much memory used by IPVS for a connection. > > > > [ The number printed is a lower bound, as ip_vs_conn_cache uses > > SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN. ] > > > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]> > > Who needs to know this? A developer? > > They can run tools such as 'pahole' et al. to fish out this > information even when only a kernel binary is available. > > For the user, it's just noise. > > I'm not applying this, sorry.
Surprisingly its a very common question amongst users, because they want to know how much memory they need. It is of course all a bit silly, because the amount of memory used by the connection table is usually very small, but people still ask. _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
