>Can anyone help out here please? > > >On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:17 +1300, Josh wrote: > >> Hello. Ive got a few openbsd firewalls set up with carp and pfsync >> running on them. >> >> Anyway, basically any transfer that goes thru the firewalls is slow, as >> in 1megabyte per second. >> >> I notice that while the transfer is happening, in top, I see the % of >> interrupt go to around 80%, and any other network traffic that needs to >> pass thru the firewall goes very slow too. >> >> I am running pf, but no traffic shaping. I cant really turn pf to test >> without it right now. >> >> Here is a dmesg of one of the firewalls: >> >> OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC >> cpu0: Intel Celeron ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 128KB L2 cache) 398 MHz [snip]
Given that you've only supplied dmesg output but no other details - network configuration, pf configuration, the make-up of your traffic, operational details, etc. - it's pretty hard to surmise exactly what might be a root cause. Some of the people on this list are excellent resources, but I'm not yet aware of anyone being able to read minds or accurately predict the future...