Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753774AbXFYR2A (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:28:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751676AbXFYR1u (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:27:50 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.224]:31745 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751032AbXFYR1t (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:27:49 -0400 Message-ID: <467FFAAA.8010103@rossove.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:26:02 -0500 From: David Jones Reply-To: djones@rossove.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Iakobashvili CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Scaling Max IP address limitation References: <467EA7C1.4080006@rossove.com> <20070624110236.fa36b2f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7e63f56c0706241259u6e123ed6yc02b76f0260adaa5@mail.gmail.com> <467F063A.2030805@rossove.com> <7e63f56c0706250147w508d3aeay5f7aaca8215953c8@mail.gmail.com> <7e63f56c0706250241q19c6cb49yb846a38eb10a53e6@mail.gmail.com> <7e63f56c0706250544u78353454y44f4aab12a9e3fa8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7e63f56c0706250544u78353454y44f4aab12a9e3fa8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 40 Ok I have tried it on a Pentium-M ( 32 Bit ,) with 512 MB RAM and Core 2 Duo with 1Gig RAM ( running SMP kernel , 2 CPUS) with same results. Cant go more than ~4K addresses. I have tried them with vanilla and custom kernels all 2.6.19+ versions. Results are same on both systems , so thats the reason I am thinking that there is some limit in kernel source tree which I cant seem to find . Really appreciate your help in this regard. Thanks, -d Robert Iakobashvili wrote: > On 6/25/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> On Jun 25 2007 12:41, Robert Iakobashvili wrote: >> >> > I am getting after initial successes some errors: >> >> > "rtnl_talk(): RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory" >> >> > and >> >> > #ip addr | wc-l is 8194. >> >> >> >> I'd be surprised if it was 4096 on x86 and 8192 on x86_64... >> > >> > Missed to mention: the CPU is Pentium-4. >> >> That's like saying you've got a SPARC. Or a MIPS. Or a PPC. >> (I can't infer from your answer whether that is running 32 or 64-bit >> kernel, because there are P4s with and without 64-bit extensions.) > > 32/32 > >> Jan >> -- >> > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/