Thanks Holger

I thought I remembered seeing something about this in the past, but google 
could not find it.

Interesting it is max 1K per state.  I wonder what the factors are that 
influence the size.

/peter

On Monday 15 May 2006 20:15, Holger Bauer wrote:
> Bill already answered this here:
> http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=1000.msg5953#msg5953
>
> Holger
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Curran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:54 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [pfSense Support] Maximum state table size
> >
> >
> > Can I ask Scott/Bill/Chris how big a state table I can reserve?
> >
> > We have just gone live with a pfsense pair on a pretty big
> > website.  We are
> > pulling a pretty consistent load of 6-8 Mbps outbound and
> > running with a
> > steady 30-40K states, peaking to 50+.
> >
> > The boxes have 256MB of memory, so plenty of head-room.
> >
> > What is the maximum size that I can wind the 'Firewall
> > Maximum States'
> > variable up to?  I am currently running with 70K states
> > defined, but would
> > like to go to at least 100K.
> >
> > Incidentally the site admin has reported a strange problem with state
> > management in the slave firewall:  If you run out of states
> > on the slave you
> > can only get it to see an increase by rebooting.  This does
> > not seem to be
> > the case on the master.  This is probably a FreeBSD/pf issue,
> > rather than
> > pfsense but I thought you might like to know.
> >
> > This setup seems to be very smooth - I am seeing a consistent
> > 3.3 Mbps out of
> > the masters pfsync port and < 30% CPU load (2GHz Celeron with
> > 4 Gigabit
> > Ethernet ports).  I have not tried polling yet, but will do
> > so if the CPU
> > load goes much higher.
> >
> > Be glad of any advice.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > /Peter
> >
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