On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Arindam Haldar wrote:

> bob the problem is i want to know how much iptables uses the system
> RAM...top does give me many useful figures but not the ones i want... as
> i wrote earlier--my RH7.2-kernel 2.4.18 iptables 1.2.5 with
> squid2.4Stable3, & few other process takes only about 150-160 mb of the
> 512mb RAM in the system !!.. but the free RAM is only 3mb ... i know on
> 512 the max conntrack is about 32200appx  & the active connection on my
> system has maximum gone to about 5500( fgrep conn /proc/slabinfo).
> iproute is the only other modules running on my system which has 5 ether
> port....
> port0 is the interface to gateway... port1 handles office lan with 60
> valid ips... port2 handles RAS having 1 E1 line on valid ip... port4 has
> lease lines about 224 valid ips ..& port5 has masqueraded clients--those
> having private ips about 120 of them..
> therfore i want to know where everytime the RAM goes !!..( squid uses
> only about 25%)... iproute handling bandwidth or iptables ??
> sorry i dint gave any details in my previous mails but as u c am curious
>   on the amount of RAM being used & where?

Have a look at /proc/slabinfo

Columns are:

Name of Cache
Active Objects in the Cache
Total Objects in the Cache
Size of each object
Active Slabs
Total Slabs
GFP Order (only of interest for the GP size-based caches).

-Tom
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