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Subject: Re: RELENG_8 pf stack issue (state count spiraling out of control)
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On 03/05/2011 10:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

<snip lots of data relevant to the discussion but not my answer>
> Sadly I don't see a way with bsnmpd(8) to monitor things like interrupt
> usage, etc. otherwise I'd be graphing that.  The more monitoring the
> better; at least then I could say "wow, interrupts really did shoot
> through the roof -- the box went crazy!" and RMA the thing.  :-)
>
you could use net-mgmt/bsnmp-regex although I dont know what the
overhead for that is like.

Vince