Hello all, just wondering if anyone else has tried using renice to de-prioritise other processes in an effort to give more cpu time to packet forwarding in the kernel ?
While Im certain that there significant risks to system stability and other functionality of the system if one were to carpet bomb the process list pids with renice 20. Perhaps the current defaults are for general purpose systems ? Perhaps other network Administrators have tweaked background processes where a system was a single purpose system such as a Router, Firewall or Bridge. Also is the softnet process (as seen by command top -SH) only interrupt handling of packets ? or does it cover processing (e.g. forwarding if enabled ) (either bridging or routing depending on network config) any advice welcome ... Thanks Tom Smyth
