Re: expected load?
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 07:09:19PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote:
> > I've been running a PIII-700/128MB as an iptables based firewall for
> > the past several days, and it seems to be experiencing practically no
> > load. From uptime, I see: 00:59:56 up 4 days, 8:59, 1 user, load
> > average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > This firewall is has 3 interfaces, and according to 'iptraf' their
> > current averages are: eth0 ~500kbits/sec - ~800kbits/sec eth1
> > ~400kbits/sec - ~900kbits/sec eth2 ~75kbits/sec - ~150kbits/sec
> >
> > The firewall has ~100 rules and is set to default drop. Is this kind
> > of load typical for this setup?
>
> Yup. Load comes from running *user* processes, not from the kernel.
Or I/O-wait?
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ytti
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