I am running a native 64 bit kernel. I thought it might be somthing like 
that but couldn't find anythign in the documentation that said it defaulted to 
10000 entries. I just figured out how to view the limit in pfctl. I will 
increase it and see if that makes the issue go away.
 
Thanks very much for the suggestion,
 
-Matthew
 
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From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 6/28/2005 11:29 AM
To: Grooms, Matthew
Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; IS-Network
Subject: Re: pf performance issues ...



On 6/28/05, Grooms, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>      This is a dual 3GHz amd64 box ( UP kernel at the moment ), with 4 gigs 
> of ram and 6x em interfaces. It is mostly a stock kernel with pf,pfsync,carp 
> and altq ( but no altq rules ) support compiled in and ipv6 disabled ( config 
> attached ).

Is this running natively as 64 bit or i386 32bit?

>      Am I running into a limit on some kernel tunable? After a few minutes of 
> routing traffic to pf setup, the state table had approx 10000 entries in it. 
> Are there some global pf limits to tweak or should it scale well out of the 
> box? The internet connection is only 7Mbit so I am at a loss. Is there a 
> cache or buffer limit somewhere I should watch? Any ideas?

I believe the default state limit size is 10,000.   Could you be
hitting this number and then noticing the slowdown because your out of
state entries?

Scott


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