On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:22:17PM +0100, Piotrek Kaczmarek wrote: > # sysctl net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max > net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 30000 i assume you set that manually, as i don't think there's an amount of physical RAM that would result in 30000 on the dot... speaking of which--how much physical RAM does this machine have? you would need 512 MB RAM for ip_conntrack_max to be automatically calculated to 32768, even though the conntrack table would only really use around 12 MB of kernel memory. also--is this machine dedicated solely to firewalling, or is there something else chewing up your RAM? -j -- "I have thought this through. First, I will send Bart the money to fly home. Then I will murder him." --The Simpsons