On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, getadog wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:38:32AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > We've got a DX2/66 running our firewall here, and it's got a firewall > > script with about 40 rules - lots of port forwarding, a transparent squid > > proxy, and NAT. Load average never gets a digit other than 0 in it - > > unless I'm ssh'd in to do something - then it gets to about 0.4. (I type > > fast). > > Your comment about load averages on a firewall shows a lack of understanding.
Sorry? I understand load averages quite well, thankyou. It's the average number processes waiting for a timeslice, taken over the time which the load average is calculated. Although that doesn't take into account the time the kernel spends processing packets, the other things quietly ticking along in the background would push the load average up if the machine spent all it's time sorting packets. Would you care to explain exactly where my understanding of load averages is flawed? > But considering you do this stuff while asleep, you're forgiven. It's the travel to SLUG meetings that wears me out. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
