Linux IPv6 router table size.

Richard Hartmann richih.mailinglist at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 01:54:44 CET 2011


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:32, Martin Millnert <martin at millnert.se> wrote:

> anticimex at natalie:~$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv{4,6}/route/max_size
> 524288
> 4096
> anticimex at natalie:~$ echo 4096*4 | bc
> 16384
>
> Now this is on a Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-5-686, and I don't know if this
> is compile time variables or not.  But it does seem a bit out of sync
> (as it should be, just a bit too much out of sync).

I should have added those numbers myself, sorry. FWIW, Debian Sid,
same kernel, same values. Which made me suspicious so I checked on
different boxes.

128 MB RAM:
16384
4096

256 MB RAM:
32768
4096

2 GB RAM:
524288
4096

4 GB RAM:
524288
4096


Richard



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