netdev - Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:38:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti@...il.com>
cc:	djones@...sove.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation


On Jun 25 2007 12:41, Robert Iakobashvili wrote:
>> > I am getting after initial successes some errors:
>> > "rtnl_talk(): RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory"
>> > and
>> > #ip addr | wc-l is 8194.
>>
>> I'd be surprised if it was 4096 on x86 and 8192 on x86_64...
>
> Missed to mention: the CPU is Pentium-4.

That's like saying you've got a SPARC. Or a MIPS. Or a PPC.
(I can't infer from your answer whether that is running 32 or 64-bit
kernel, because there are P4s with and without 64-bit extensions.)


	Jan
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