From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 31 0: 3:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from home.dragondata.com (home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B941B154B7 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:03:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id CAA13921; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 02:02:47 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199903310802.CAA13921@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: IPFW performance impact? In-Reply-To: from "W. Reilly Cooley" at "Mar 30, 1999 11:55: 3 pm" To: wcooley@nakedape.navi.net (W. Reilly Cooley) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 02:02:46 -0600 (CST) Cc: Benoit.Rossier@mcnet.ch, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > > Right now, i've got close to 2MB out, and 1MB in, with two fxp0 cards, > > and a pretty heavy ruleset (40 rules, that most packets have to pass > > through all of them). > > > > last pid: 26211; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > 13 processes: 1 running, 12 sleeping > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 6.6% interrupt, 93.4% idle > > > > > > This is on a P/200. > > How much traffic do you have going through at the time you posted this? > This data would be more meaningful if, say, you we're doing an FTP or dump > to a machine just on the other side, so you had lots of traffic. If it's > idle, then it doesn't really matter how many rules or how much you've > got--it'd be as idle on a 386-16. > Well, the states are about the same right now, and according to my router: 5 minute input rate 1411000 bits/sec, 632 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 609000 bits/sec, 624 packets/sec Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message