I did raise the value and its working fine now... at least till I hit another limit...
Thanks once again.
Dp
Sven Koch wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, urgrue wrote:
i just ran into this problem recently.No, raising it is perfectly normal.
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
that will show you what the maximum amount of connections is. yours is
obviously reaching this max.
i think this is set based on amount of ram. at least it seems to
automatically be 7160 on my 128mb box and 32704 on my 512mb box.
raising this is apparently a bad idea and can crash your box.
Each conntrack entry uses about 600 bytes of unswappable kernel ram (more
exact numbers are somewhere in the netfilter docs).
So 10k connections are about 6mb ram - if the box does nothing serious
besides routing/filtering, the numbers can by increased a lot on most
memory sizes.
c'ya
sven
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