Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:17:50 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: mika ruohotie <bsdhack@aeon.st> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.ip.dummynet.hash_size Message-ID: <20021216221750.B99444@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20021216111042.A61440@rigel.grass.st>; from bsdhack@aeon.st on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:10:42AM %2B0200 References: <20021216111042.A61440@rigel.grass.st>
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:10:42AM +0200, mika ruohotie wrote: > > hello, > > ipfw man page says: > > buckets hash-table-size > Specifies the size of the hash table used for storing the various > queues. Default value is 64 controlled by the sysctl(8) variable > net.inet.ip.dummynet.hash_size, allowed range is 16 to 1024. > > and my question is if it's possible to somehow go beyond 1024, or if > doing so wouldnt be adviced. (ie, performance would be poor or so) i think there was some recent commit which raises the limit above 1024 -- mind you, the number of buckets is not the upper bound for the number of flows. cheers luigi > i'd need to experiment shaping with "large" supernets giving each > single ip addresses a designated bandwidth. (i'm using gigabit, if > someone wonders if i really need that many, and the answer is "yes") > > > mickey > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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