From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 9 16:41:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DD837B401; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED69E43E42; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csmith@its.uq.edu.au) Received: from [130.102.152.68] (tobermory.its.uq.edu.au [130.102.152.68]) by bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26291; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:41:21 +1000 (GMT+1000) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:41:12 +1000 Subject: Re: High interrupt load on firewalls From: Christopher Smith To: Andre Oppermann Cc: Mike Silbersack , , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3DA4BB08.D7759E02@tix.ch> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10/10/02 9:26 AM, "Andre Oppermann" wrote: [chomp] > He probably can't tell because of the 32bit ifstats counters. They > wrap every other minute on a well loaded Gigabit card. A 'systat -ip 1' shows rates ranging from 120kpps to 250kpps, averaging around the 150 - 180 range. Is this a reasonable way to be measuring ? -- +- Christopher Smith, Systems Administrator ------------------------------+ | Server & Security Group, Information Technology Services | | The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4072 | +- Ph +61 7 3365 4046 | email csmith@its.uq.edu.au | Fax +61 7 3365 4065 -+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message