Re: expected load?
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Saku Ytti wrote:
> 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?
Er, yes, technically. As far as I am concerned, though, that's because a
process that's waiting on I/O is actually running at the moment, just
not running on the CPU.
Daniel
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