I've upgraded a firewall from a Celeron 1.7GHz to a dual core 3GHz machine with an 80GB hard drive and 512MB RAM to be able to better handle a large number of static routes.
The image installed just fine and all seemed well. However the routes took a really long time to load. I use 9488 static route entries (which I added into the XML config file instead of via the web interface. The memory usage with all these routes loaded is about 60%, but when I change anything PHP takes a really long to finish processing some simple commands like adding a host in the dns forwarer. (By long I mean more than 30 minutes!) So I removed all the routes except one, just to test if all else is ok, but found that on both release 1.2 and 1.2.1-RC2, PHP steadily increased when I save a change until it hits 100% usage on one CPU. Then, if I click something else, the second CPU gets a PHP process that also goes to 100%. Why would this be happening? The motherboard is an Intel manufactured board and I have added an Intel dual port gigabit network card. regards -- Roland Giesler Green Tree Systems cc, Stellenbosch, South Africa Mobile: 072-450-2817 http://www.thegreentree.za.net If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be… - Thomas Jefferson, Jan 6th, 1816
