On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:33:13PM +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: > From where do you think that the module usage counter reports how many > packets/connections are handled (currently? totally?) by the module. > There is no whatsoever connection!
one should also consider the performance impact this would have !!! > According to your first mail, the machine has 256M RAM and you issued > > insmod ip_conntrack 16384 > > That requires 16384*8*~600byte ~= 75MB non-swappable RAM. > > When you issued "iptables -t nat -L", the system tried to reserve plus > 2x75MB. That's in total pretty near to all your available physical RAM > and the machine might died in swapping. ??? Why should listing an IP table try to reserve twice the size of the conntrack table? > Regards, > Jozsef -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE-- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ DI? !D G+ e* h+ r% y+(*)
