Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-17 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Jedi/Sector One wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:24:36PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: We're running an X86 box with 512MB ram, nmbclusters = 8192, nkmempages = 81920 Didn't Cedric say that nkmempages 16384 on x86 was instable? Did you test it that way for a long

Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-16 Thread Philipp Buehler
On 16/03/2004, Jedi/Sector One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote To Cedric Berger: No, i386 current pmap support is very poor, and won't allow you to reliably allocate more than 64M of RAM. Thanks for the clarification. Which is not completly correct, like some insane guy showed us on misc@ or

Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-16 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Jedi/Sector One wrote: What is the highest safe value I should raise NMBCLUSTERS to on x86? How many states max will it keep? We're running an X86 box with 512MB ram, nmbclusters = 8192, nkmempages = 81920, and a state limit of 100. In testing I got up to about

Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-16 Thread Jedi/Sector One
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:24:36PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: We're running an X86 box with 512MB ram, nmbclusters = 8192, nkmempages = 81920 Didn't Cedric say that nkmempages 16384 on x86 was instable? Did you test it that way for a long time? -- __ /*-Frank DENIS (Jedi/Sector

Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-15 Thread Jedi/Sector One
Hello. Is there any kernel parameter like NMBCLUSTERS or NKMEMPAGES to increase in order to let pf work with millions of states? The host has 1Gb ram and does nothing but transparent firewalling. TIA, -- __ /*-Frank DENIS (Jedi/Sector One) j at 42-Networks.Com-*\ __ \ '/

Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-15 Thread Jon Mosco
Yes. option NMBCLUSTERS=N , where N is the number of clusters. Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html#Network Jon On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:02:46 +0059 Jedi/Sector One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Is there any kernel parameter like NMBCLUSTERS or NKMEMPAGES to increase in

Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-15 Thread Cedric Berger
No, i386 current pmap support is very poor, and won't allow you to reliably allocate more than 64M of RAM. You might be more lucky with sparc64 or amd64. Cedric Jon Mosco wrote: Yes. option NMBCLUSTERS=N , where N is the number of clusters. Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html#Network

Re: Keeping a lot of states

2004-03-15 Thread Jedi/Sector One
Hi Cedric. On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:08:13AM +0100, Cedric Berger wrote: No, i386 current pmap support is very poor, and won't allow you to reliably allocate more than 64M of RAM. Thanks for the clarification. What is the highest safe value I should raise NMBCLUSTERS to on x86? How