Julian Oliver <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > taking down eth1 resulted in ksoftirqd immediately dropping to a sub-percent CPU load and my screaming fan ceasing to scream. > everything returns to normal. can you show use multiple "netstat -i" and "cat /proc/interrupt" and "netstat -s" and "cat /proc/net/stat/*" snaphsots. To me it sounds like you have been DDOSed. Gruss Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html