Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:52:30 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how much memory does increasing max rules for IPFW take up? Message-ID: <482C07DE.3090504@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <04EA1C34-AB7D-4A85-8A91-DED03E987706@khera.org> References: <04EA1C34-AB7D-4A85-8A91-DED03E987706@khera.org>
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Vivek Khera wrote: > I had a box run out of dynamic state space yesterday. I found I can > increase the number of dynamic rules by increasing the sysctl parameter > net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max. I can't find, however, how this affects memory > usage on the system. Is it dyanamically allocated and de-allocated, or > is it a static memory buffer? Each dynamic rule allocated dynamically. Be careful, too many dynamic rules will work very slow. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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