Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:07:39 +0530 From: nikitha <sumi.techno@gmail.com> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.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: <AANLkTimcBc1CYZD6da1Tshhdc8a7xs=6Bg2MHWxpR=hr@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D668A55.6060002@gmx.com> References: <AANLkTinaQ0D5dv%2B0FXydpH-%2B=EVvhaN9%2B%2BANsSdS7gtG@mail.gmail.com> <4D66708E.8060500@my.gd> <4D668A55.6060002@gmx.com>
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Thank you all, for your timely reply.. To answer Niko's question: Just i'm doing some performance/stress testing of a freebsd router.. :-) -Sumi On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> wrote: > 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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