On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:23:31AM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2003 05:29 am, Niklas Bergh wrote:
> > > > > NOT ON MY BOX! I have even gone so far as to limit myself to 128
> > > > > connections and my CPU useage is still averaging more than 75%
> > > > > useage, and is at 100% a lot! Of course it is Niced so it doesn't
> > > > > interfere much, but it DOES suck up LOTS of CPU. (I have
> > >
> > > a 1.53Ghz
> > >
> > > > > Athlon under Linux.) My load has been constantly over 90%
> > >
> > > ever sense
> >
> > Less connections allowed might actually give your CPU a higher load if
> > your node is popular. This is due to it being forced to perform more,
> > crypto-heavy, connection negotiations.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this? IE: not respond to every new node that comes 
> along?

Technically, but it is _REALLY_ bad for load balancing, routing and so
on.
> 
> > > so many connections all the time it really slows down my
> > > normal internet
> > > access.
> >
> > So many connections open or so many connections beeing established?
> 
> Connections being established, I think. However I am beginning to suspect, 
> biased on what I'm seeing here that my cable company may be running a packet 
> shaper to slow the connection of computers that are connecting to lots of 
> others.
> 
> I have just recently set my total connections back down to 50 and my network 
> access is much faster. However my CPU useage is still very high.
> 
> > Are negotiations throttled?
> 
> I am using incoming and outgoing bandwidth limiting, and limitting the total 
> number of connections. 

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