Performance

[Rusty Russell]

In message <NDBBIHAIKLCAPCNCPEJNCEHDCCAA.katz@advanced.org> you write:
> Anyway, that was with .14, and according to Rusty, the hash table was
> increased in .15, and that should solve the problems (at least the ones we
> had .. we had an average of 13,000 connections registered in
> /proc/net/ip_conntrack)... We haven't tested the new one yet, but will be in
> a few days to a week or so ..

Might not solve all of them, but squeezing 13k connections into 64
hash buckets means an average of one hundred linked list traversals
per connection lookup, and that's gotta hurt.

Rusty.
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