> Thx for the reply. Well I've already increased the state table size to > 150000 entries, 10000 was not enough (there was up to 70000 > simultaneous state entries during the test). Hardware wise, I'm using > a xeon 2.4 GHz monocore with 1 GB of RAM. Since this server is used as > firewall only, I've raised the kernel space memory to up to 90% of > total memory. I don't want to make hasty conclusion, so I'll keep > searching..
Regardiing this last bit. REALLY! How did you do that? I'd love to know. Whatever you did does not do what you think it does. In fact, I bet it is doing exactly the opposite of what you think it does.