From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 11:53:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF2D1065694 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035498FC19 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib19 with SMTP id 19so796905yib.13 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:53:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=wxllyq0ZuBcEmeDfkOhIn9tMFxeEwyjvpF6XhaXqAmw=; b=Vgcct5BU/lxZN4m9Wl3uhV9TODWdZwS+G/CkhrY33q7Ap8M6DVn3UppXVeZDdDoHtp vngyXrydb6qp1lf/Xvsap3/l6UwMuRYZuipj4wAC6BHiZTeDuCRALsdVcfkcPm1ArX5P S5bfvO1fke9iPB57/9psRFli8FBJb3vNkWr1M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=r1CObO6a4zksJfFdWWR8A3u9kz+0t6dgujYjgv3FiZWlklkTqj7Zn5WM17etM9cNQM HIPSmG4wmbAlqJX6UPk8mmlB/BjScp6SnF+m6rhIu+dJ3s4wkzAuZ6xtKjMwynHUE6WZ LCePkl4oJ1g8JR3wJ2CJR1chdWW5R/GUcVe0I= Received: by 10.100.137.7 with SMTP id k7mr975696and.248.1298634796211; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:53:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.217.19 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:52:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4D66708E.8060500@my.gd> <4D668A55.6060002@gmx.com> From: Valentin Bud Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:52:56 +0200 Message-ID: To: nikitha Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Damien Fleuriot , Nikos Vassiliadis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning routing table size in FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:53:17 -0000 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:37 PM, nikitha wrote: > Thank you all, for your timely reply.. > To answer Niko's question: Just i'm doing some performance/stress testing > of > a freebsd router.. :-) > > -Sumi > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On 2/24/2011 4:51 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > >> On 2/24/11 3:00 PM, nikitha wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> Could you plz share the information on the maximum number of routes > that > >>> can > >>> be added (by default) in FREEBSD 8.0/7.2 kernel? > >>> In Linux the sysctl rt_max_size is used. Is there a similar tunable > >>> parameter in freeBSD? > >>> > >> [snip] > > > > > >> I could not find a sysctl that matched what you're looking for. > >> > >> AFAIK, the routing table is limited only by the amount of RAM you can > >> allocate to it. > >> > > > > Yes. You can use "vmstat -z | grep rtentry" to examine it. > > It seems trivial to add a limit there(without having thought of > > multiple routing tables and vnet). > > > > Out of curiosity, why would you want such a limit? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hello Sumi, What tools do you use to perform the tests? thanks, v -- network warrior