Subject: Re: Large ipf Rule Sets - Memory Usage and NetBSD 2.1_Stable
To: None <yancm@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/29/2006 00:00:45
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:07:12PM -0500, yancm@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> >>
> BTW: After I executed the ipf -D/ipf -E sequence, my rules
> appeared to load but were apparently getting ignored?!?!?

Did you try reloading the rules ?

> [...]
> Memory statistics by type                           Type  Kern
>          Type  InUse MemUse HighUse  Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s)
>          temp 404425 149006K 149190K 236045K   433847    0     0 
> 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,32768,65536

OK, your memory is there and it's really still allocated. I though that
maybe it had been freed by the subsystem, but the allocator didn't return
it to the free memory pool yet. 

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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