On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, tedemo wrote: > The ipset modules seems to eat a lot of memory : > with a test set of : > - 150 000 networks in a nethash > - 10 000 hosts in a iphash > ipset sometimes fails with out of memory errors : > "kernel: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to > increase size" > > The VmAllocUsed variable from /proc/meminfo goes from 6Mo to 160Mo after > loading sets. Check out the real size of the hashes by searching the kernel log:0 "rehashing of set <foo> triggered: hashsize grows from <n> to <m>". Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary