On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:59:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> And, for a 640MB ram machine, a 4MB hash table is perfectly
> reasonable.
That isn't wholly true. A 4MB hash table can never fit in the cache of
an Athlon, and for one that's being used as a workstation with 1GB of
ram and maybe 60 connections active on average, that's a huge waste of
ram, and a guarantee that there will be lots of cache misses which just
aren't required. Keep the cache footprint as low as possible -- it
results in a system that performs better.
-ben
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