Robert Iakobashvili wrote:
Vanilla 2.6.18.3 works for me perfectly, whereas 2.6.19.5 and
2.6.20.6 do not.

Looking into the tcp /proc entries of 2.6.18.3 versus 2.6.19.5
tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem are the same, whereas tcp_mem are
much different:

kernel                  tcp_mem
---------------------------------------
2.6.18.3    12288 16384 24576
2.6.19.5      3072    4096   6144


Is not it done deliberately by the below patch:

commit 9e950efa20dc8037c27509666cba6999da9368e8
Author: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Mon Nov 6 23:10:51 2006 -0800

   [TCP]: Don't use highmem in tcp hash size calculation.

   This patch removes consideration of high memory when determining TCP
   hash table sizes.  Taking into account high memory results in tcp_mem
   values that are too large.

Is it a feature?

My machine has:
MemTotal:       484368 kB
and
for all kernel configurations are actually the same with
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y

Thanks,


Another patch that went in right around that time:

commit 52bf376c63eebe72e862a1a6e713976b038c3f50
Author: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Tue Nov 14 20:25:17 2006 -0800

    [TCP]: Fix up sysctl_tcp_mem initialization.

    Fix up tcp_mem initial settings to take into account the size of the
    hash entries (different on SMP and non-SMP systems).

    Signed-off-by: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

(This has been changed again for 2.6.21.)

In the dmesg, there should be some messages like this:

IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)

What do yours say?

Thanks,
  -John
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