Re: _High_ CPU usage while routing (mostly) small UDP packets

Karsten Desler
2004-12-07T13:13:23Z

* jamal wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 07:50, Karsten Desler wrote:
>
> > Currently I'm having problems capturing packets with tcpdump (lots of
> > "packets dropped by kernel") which indicates to me that there's
> > genuinely not much (enough) idle time sitting around.
> >
>
> Ah, more hints. So you are not trying to forward - rather just packet
> capturing?

forward/routing is the goal.

I was just trying to capture a tcpdump to analyze the traffic to
generate something that could emulate the trafficpattern for further
testing in a non-production environment.

Cheers,
Karsten