the ram shouldn't be a problem either :
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 222760 67208 155552 0 19464 14332
-/+ buffers/cache: 33412 189348
Swap: 1028152 0 1028152
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:57, you wrote:
> Hello Joao Carvalho,
> Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 10:42:48, you wrote:
> JC> Hi
> JC> i am trying to put together an bridge with shapping and firewalling
> capacity. JC> Ok i have it all now together working ok , my problem is that
> the performance JC> will go down the tube if there are to many connections,
> but the processor will JC> not show any load.
>
> JC> with is excelent.
> JC> Now for my problem , i connected the bridge with one board to the
> router with JC> a crossover cable, and the other one to the network.
> JC> This network has a lot of clients, when i did an line count in
> JC> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
> JC> i got more than 23000 conections.
>
> JC> what happened was that the outgoing trafic went from 18Mb to 7Mb, speed
> in JC> opening webpages went down it took about 10 more seconds to open
> webpage. How much the RAM on your box?
>
> JC> First i thought that there might be an bottleneck in iptables or
> netfilter or JC> even in connection tracking so i disconnected these
> options in the kernel but JC> the result was the same, what really is
> strange that the processor load JC> continues 0.00 0.00 0.00 .
> It should be so if You haven't any other processes except of the kernel.
> That values is the number of processes in the system run queue averaged
> over various periods of time (1, 5 and 15 min by default).
>
> JC> It is an AMD Athlon XP 2000+.
> JC> the motherboard is an top EPOX , and the ethernet cards are
> intelpro100. JC> does anyone have an sugestion why this is happening and
> how to fix that.
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Joao Carvalho
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