On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:24 PM [GMT+1200=NZT], SBlaze <dagent.geo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok I did that(with top) My CPU usage for both procs is relativly low. > They both tend to idle with other visable processes at 96-100% idle. > > root@nixn00b:~# vmstat > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- > ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo > in cs us sy id wa 0 0 27464 5848 22848 44388 0 0 > 1 2 11 8 0 1 99 0 > Looks fine... sounds to me like this is a red herring, are you sure your problem is not just with your connection itself? You said: > The reason I ask is that I have what I think is an unusual amount of > inbound unsolicited udp traffic(which is dropped by > iptables/netfilter). > Inbound unsolicited traffic will be dropped with or without iptables - you don't need a firewall to stop that as it won't have anywhere to go anyway. And you'd have to have a serious amount of traffic to choke the CPU like that. But, that traffic could be using up your bandwidth of course... If that's a possibility, you need to find out more about where the traffic is coming from and where it's going to and why you're receiving it. -Simon
