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From: bikrant@wlink.com.np
To: Ray Leach <raymondl@knowledgefactory.co.za>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: System Load
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:39:58 +0545	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311171739.58301.bikrant@wlink.com.np> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069060584.22071.59.camel@raylinux.internal>

On Monday 17 November 2003 15:01, Ray Leach wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:34, Rohit wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	Is it possible to know how much system resources (cpu/memory load) that
> > the netfilter module(s) is using? We are using HTB to shape our client
> > traffic and there are 4 iptables rule for each client in the mangle
> > table. I think it will be helpful to gather such data and graph it using
> > mrtg.
>
> Just remember, iptables is only used to mark the traffic. tc is used to
> classify and shape the traffic.

Yeah you are right. But iptables must be using some resources(like cpu time 
etc) to mark the each and every packet. We have around 2-3 Mbps traffice 
flowing at each interface and I think that does consume some system 
resources. That is what I want to know about.

I guess it sound very foolish now :)

regds,
Rohit
>
> > I'm really sorry if someone has already asked about it.
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > with regards,
> > Rohit Nepali



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-14  9:34 System Load Rohit
2003-11-17  9:16 ` Ray Leach
2003-11-17 11:54   ` bikrant [this message]
2003-11-17 12:04     ` Antony Stone
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-14  9:38 bikrant

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