How many entries can you have in a host list?

Products

• PacketShaper

Issue/Introduction

Is there a limit to the number of entries you can add to a host list?

Resolution

There is no hard limit; the maximum varies according to how much memory is available.At the CLI prompt, enter sys limits. Look at the section of the output titled "Dynamically allocated objects."

For example:

Statically allocated objects          Current  Remaining      Total
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Traffic classes                           159        865       1024
Partitions                                  2        510        512
Dynamic Partitions                          0      10000      10000
Policies                                    6       1018       1024
Matching rules                            318       4802       5120
Classes with worst clients/servers          0         16         16
Classes with top talkers/listeners          2         10         12
TCP flows                                   3     199997     200000
Other IP flows                             24      99976     100000
Legacy flows                                8       9992      10000
Concurrent Hosts                          327      99673     100000
MAC Cache Entries                         281      14719      15000
Fragment Cache Entries                      0       8000       8000
Command Contexts                            7         23         30
Compression tunnels                         0        269        269
Compression entries                         0       4304       4304

Dynamically allocated objects         Current  Potential      Total
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Matching rule host references               3      10257      10260
Host list DS entries                        3      24097      24100
DNS names                                   6      59067      59073
Customer Portal users                       0       1024       1024

The line "Host list DS entries" indicates the total number of host lists and entries
 inside  the  host  lists that can be created, given your current memory utilization.

Note: 
If you are creating host lists using the Host List Editor in the browser interface, a single Host List Editor session is limited to the creation of 32 host lists. A message window warns when this limit is reached.

To initiate a new session to add more host lists, close the Host List Editor window and the Matching Rule window and then open them both again.