On Feb 6, 2008 8:03 PM, Cloves Pereira Costa Jr <cloves.costa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi... > > My machine is a DELL PowerEdge 2500 with 2 CPU PIII 1 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 250 > GB HD SCSI... This configuration is slow? > For some purposes, yes. How many packets a second were you handling, and how? How large were they/how many kilobytes/second? SSH session, perhaps? > One more question, the fact that tcpdump drop the packets don't imply > that theese packets are being dropped also in the comunication? > It doesn't imply anything either way. They may be being dropped, or not, depending on the actual system load and interface capacity; tcpdump uses a lot more CPU time than the normal path. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
