iptables --list is very slow

[Jonathan Wilson <jw@mailsw.com>]

I just tried using iptables --list on one of my servers and it took about 4 
minutes for it to list all the rules, pausing several seconds between each 
batch of lines. There are a lot of rules, but if all those lines were in a 
text file it would only take a fraction of a second to cat them. So the 
slowness is not from printing a lot of lines to the console.

Is this normal behaviour? Is there a way to make it print faster?

The actual rules were generated by firehol. Using Debian Etch netinstall - 
nothing abnormal.


	JW


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