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Re: Traffic Accounting



On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:27, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 07:01:24PM +0300, kgb wrote:
> >On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 15:58, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> >> Hello Russian Secret Service Agent...
> >> 
> >> Am 23:35 2003-07-19 +0300 hat kgb geschrieben:
> >> >
> >> >Hello,
> >> >
> >> >Which is best way for traffic accounting i use ipac-ng but i don't like
> >> >it anymore because it make my system under high load.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks in advanced.
> >> 
> >> I think there is no other choice...
> >> 
> >> I use ipac on a 100 MBit LAN where I count the traffic of five 
> >> 11 MBit WaveLAN-Channels... where ipac has two NIC's and is 
> >> In-Line between the Main-Router and the Switch where the Lucent 
> >> ORINOCO COR-1100 and wireless Bridges are connected...
> >> 
> >> Each channel has 120 Clients...
> >> 
> >> I use a AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with 512 MByte of memory and the 
> >> load is around 17...
> >> 
> >> I have for each client (all fixed IP's) two rules (rx/tx) to the 
> >> Internet and two rules (rx/tx) to the internal mail-Server. 
> >> 
> >> So I have completly 2400 rules plus som special-rules to count 
> >> ftp, http, shttp and mail traffic. 
> >> 
> >> In summary around 2500 rules.
> >> 
> >> What Do you have ???
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> Michelle
> >> 
> >I have over 2000 rules "bgpeer tx/rx", "internet tx/rx", "local traffic tx/rx"
> >machine is AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with 1G ram i forgot how many rules are
> >limit in iptables but when they are so many this is really sucks this is
> >on 100Mbit LAN the problem is when fetchipac is running and ipacsum because 
> >file in /var/lib/ipac-ng/data.db is over 5G when file i smaller traffic is smaller
> >or fetchipac and ipacsum is not running everything is fine i think thats can not be 
> >the only one way...
> >
> 
> I don't run it, I'm just a by stander; but I bet you are not dealing
> with cpu issues but disk io. run top and compare system load to your cpu
> state % idle time.
> 
> If you've got idle cpu, and load over one, you are most likely dealing
> with disk speed not cpu.... time for hardware scsi, striped raid, on 15k
> rpm disks :-P unfortunatly that's a lot more difficult and expensive
> than upgrading cpu and ram :-\
> 
> // George
> 
> 
> 
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Yes, you're right but my question is, is there have other way to do accounting
some bash, shell script to fetch traffic with "tc" command from cbq shaper ?
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