You should not be concerned about memory load, it does not cost that much cpu load will be more noticeable bottleneck for your system in any way. as about memeory i suppose it takes about 50-100bytes each rule and up to 100 kbytes each queue like sfq. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Turley" <pturley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: Memory Loading > Our system has potentially a few thousand firewall rules and > HTB > classes. I need to find out the amount of memory these things consume: > > - iptables firewall rules > - HTB classes > > If anyone has any easy links to this information, that would be great. > Failing that, a pointer to a good place to look in the source code would > be very helpful. > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/