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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 1999 02:02:46 -0600 (CST)
From:      Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>
To:        wcooley@nakedape.navi.net (W. Reilly Cooley)
Cc:        Benoit.Rossier@mcnet.ch, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW performance impact?
Message-ID:  <199903310802.CAA13921@home.dragondata.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903302352470.27147-100000@rheingold> from "W. Reilly Cooley" at "Mar 30, 1999 11:55: 3 pm"

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> 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


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