Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:41:57 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> To: nikitha <sumi.techno@gmail.com> Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning routing table size in FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2 Message-ID: <4D668A55.6060002@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <4D66708E.8060500@my.gd> References: <AANLkTinaQ0D5dv%2B0FXydpH-%2B=EVvhaN9%2B%2BANsSdS7gtG@mail.gmail.com> <4D66708E.8060500@my.gd>
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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?
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