On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Nishit Shah wrote: > > Also, what is significant of --gc parameter in iptreemap ? > > Does it make difference in testing ? > > It governs how often garbage collector is run to release empty leaves > and branches. Of course it has an effect on the current memory usage. > > Just a clarification here. > > What I understand is, If I don't have entries with --timeout values in > iptreemap (as currently --timeout is not supported in iptreemap), do we > really need --gc ? Yes, because it still does garbage collection which can accumulate by adding and deleting entries. > Can't we do it on ADD/UPDATE/DELETE/FLUSH events on set ? You mean garbage collection? Flushing does, the others not :-). Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
