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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:18:51 -0700
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400 
Message-ID:  <2998.803171931@westhill.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:43:18 EDT." <9506141643.AA03402@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> 

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In message <9506141643.AA03402@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman wri
tes:
>What this means is that the kernel IP per-host cache timeout code
>noticed that you had a lot of unreferenced routes piling up in the
>cache, and it has taken steps to reduce the expiration time in hopes
>of reducing this to a number it considers reasonable.

>The following sysctl(8) parameters control the operation of this
>function:

>net.inet.ip.rtexpire = 3600	# the expiration time
>net.inet.ip.rtminexpire = 10	# the minimum expiration time
>net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache = 128	# how many is ``too many''

Can one of the FAQ maintainers please stick this  in a FAQ - it seems
like a good candidate...

Gary



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