Hello all! We have a machine working as a router and bandwidth limiter for our network. It routes the traffic through two 'bge' interfaces utilizing only public IPs. No NAT is used. We only have IPFW rules for traffic shaping by MAC addresses. It works fine, but we have been experiencing high latency and packet loss. There is no other major services in this machine, cpu utilization is low, memory is fine, no disk activity, but load average is always around 1.5 or 2, even if I disable IPFW layer 2 filtering. Network traffic is not greater than 12 Mbit/s.
The system is a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, running on a dual CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (3051.47-MHz 686-class CPU) compiled with SMP kernel: cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 top output: last pid: 14039; load averages: 1.61, 1.62, 1.56 37 processes: 1 running, 35 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.4% system, 30.8% interrupt, 67.8% idle Mem: 16M Active, 421M Inact, 149M Wired, 688K Cache, 112M Buf, 1417M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 6245 root 96 0 2672K 2236K select 2 3:48 0.00% 0.00% dhcpd 329 root 96 0 1328K 892K select 0 2:48 0.00% 0.00% syslogd 453 root 96 0 3384K 2508K select 2 0:33 0.00% 0.00% sshd systat -iostat output: /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load Average |||||||||| /0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100 cpu user| nice| system| interrupt|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX idle|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX /0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100 da0 MB/s tps|X pass0 MB/s tps| Can anyone give me some advice? Thank you in advance! _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"