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Subject: loading lot of rules takes very long time
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Hello,

We have about 10000-20000 pipes for
different subnets, and it takes very long
time to load them - about 10-15min.

92.8% interrupt,  0.0% idle

strange that things slow down when count
reaches 2000-2500 rules.

is there something we can do to speed things up?

rules are added like:
  ipfw -q add 1 pipe 1 src-ip 1.1.1.1 out via em0
  ipfw pipe 1 config bw 30Kbytes/s queue 10
  ...
soo 'ipfw' is invoked '2 x client_count' !!!

maybe ipfw need feature like:
ipfw -f /etc/rc.firewall



# FreeBSD-4.9, IPFW2,
# HZ=2000, DEVICE_POLLING,
# 1G RAM, 2.4xeon on Intel server board





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