From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 09:44:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA08846 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 09:44:14 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA08838 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 09:44:12 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA03402; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:43:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:43:18 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9506141643.AA03402@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400 In-Reply-To: <199506141613.AAA13743@ccsun8.csie.nctu.edu.tw> References: <199506141613.AAA13743@ccsun8.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < Jun 14 17:24:18 Adonis /kernel: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400 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'' -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant