ip_conntrack table full problem

[Phil Oester]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:13:59PM +0100, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> > > I'm facing a problem with conntrack on a 2.4.21 kernel.
> > > One machine which firewalls a webradio reproducable
> > > becomes unresponsive every week with
> > > "ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet."
> >
> > When this happens, what does output from this look like:
> >
> > wc -l /proc/net/ip_conntrack ; grep ip_conntrack /proc/slabinfo
> 
> It happend again on Sunday night:
> 
> wc -l:
> 35 /proc/net/ip_conntrack
> 
> /proc/slabinfo:
> ip_conntrack       16263  16272    320 1356 1356    1

Yes, you're leaking conntracks somewhere.  Any possibility of testing
a somewhat newer kernel than 2.4.21?  This may have already been
fixed.

Phil