On 5/6/2011 3:41 PM, Jaap Winius wrote:
> Quoting Avinesh Kumar <[email protected]>:
> 
>> The VMware Player tool comes with a network configuration utility, using
>> which I set up UDP timeout for NAT to "0" that would mean to not
>> timeout...
>>
>> This is working pretty good for me, if you have similar configuation
>> you may
>> try this out.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have a production system and my understanding is that
> those ip_conntrack_udp_timeout settings are there for a reason.
> Obviously AFS is very important to me, but I would prefer this value to
> be kept as low as possible.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jaap


The reason is to reduce memory utilization.  The defaults are very small
so that Linux deployed on small ARM devices (home routers) do
not run out of memory.

Jeffrey Altman

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