kernel: dst cache overflow
Alexander Dalloz
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Wed Jul 6 14:37:21 UTC 2005
Am Mi, den 06.07.2005 schrieb André Cruz um 15:21:
> I have a router running FC 2 with kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2.
That kernel has security issues.
> Yesterday my network went down and a lot of "dst cache overflow"
> appeared in my console. I then increased
> my /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size from 8192 to 16384 and my network
> started to work again...
>
> The problem is that dst_cache keeps increasing:
> [root at saf113 root]# cat /proc/slabinfo |grep ip_dst_ca
> ip_dst_cache 9210 9210 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 0 : slabdata 614 614 0
>
> This way the problem will repeat itself... Is there a solution to this?
> Is this a known bug?
> André
I don't understand why your proc value is that small.
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size
131072
This is on my unmodified FC2 with the rebuild FC3 kernel 2.6.11-1.35.
Do you constantly run P2P filesharing? That is a typical reason too for
stopping SOHO hardware router to work as they have limited NAT
capacities.
Alexander
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