netdev - Re: [PATCH] Limit size of route cache hash table

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Message-ID: <20090427054702.GA15891@kryten>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:47:02 +1000
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit size of route cache hash table

 
Hi,

> Then boot with rhash_entries = 8000 ?
> or 
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_interval

Yes we are hardwiring it for now.

> Sorry this limit is too small. Many of my customer machines would collapse.

So what would a reasonable upper limit be? Surely we should cap it at some
point?

Anton
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