On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Harald Welte wrote: > > 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?
By entering the command above, he loads in the iptable_nat kernel module, which at initializing itself try to allocate memory for the bysource and byipsproto hashes (with the same size as of ip_conntrack_hash). Regards, Jozsef - E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary
