On Wednesday 2010-05-12 20:05, Mamadou Touré wrote: >Hi thank you for your reply. >how could i evaluate the quantity of memories. >for example of 1 000 000 rules what quantity should i have a least. If you use `iptables -vvS`, you see: libiptc vlibxtables.so.4. 5332 bytes. Which is the size of the current table. Multiply that by NR_CPUS (from /proc/config) to get what it's taking up (we're on to reducing that). -- 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