David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Thomas Jacob wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:13:11PM -0700, David Lang wrote: >> [..] >> >>>> Is this still true? What is the reason for this? And: Does >>>> any odd hashtable size work as well as other odd hash tables sizes >>>> in the same order of magnitude? >>> >>> >>> changing conntrack_max is not chaning the hash bucket count, that change >>> can only be done in the code or as a module parameter at module load >>> time. >> >> >> Sure, I meant odd hash bucket counts of course, so is this >> FAQ still accurate? > > > as far as I know. None of this is :) hash_buckets can be changed at runtime through the sysfs module parameter and the size can be chosen arbitary, in fact the current -git tree will round it up to the next multiple of PAGE_SIZE / (sizeof(struct hlist_head)) to avoid memory wastage.
